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Aloha, Everyone aboard Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise got to see a Humpback on the surface at least 20 different times. We were watching 7 different Humpbacks all within 50 to 250 yards of us who were all on 10 minute dive cycles. Since they hadn’t synchronized those dives, it seemed like there…

Aloha, It seems like I’ve been writing this phrase a lot lately…”The surf was up again” but…the surf was up again for Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor. That meant that the conditions at the dock were surgy, but once we got out of the harbor and into deeper water, all…

Aloha, The surf was up again for Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay. As soon as we got out of the bay though, we really couldn’t feel the swells. Guests on the cruise got to see 8 different Humpbacks. We spent a lot of our time with a pod of 3…

Aloha, Guests on Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise spent some time with 3 different pods comprised of 2 Humpbacks each. We saw our first pod just as we were leaving the harbor, directly in front of us. These 2 whales were fully grown — and surfacing, spouting and sounding. While we were watching…

Aloha, Do you have a favorite Humpback behavior? I do — for some reason watching a Humpback spy-hopping is just mesmerizing to me. Something about watching the whale moving in what seems like a slow-motion vertical elevator ride until her eyes are above the surface of the ocean just gives me goose-bumps (or as we…

Aloha, According to Captain Will, our final Whale Watch of 2024 can be described with just 2 words…Loud and Lazy. Guests joining us on this Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor got to see spouts from 8 or so different Humpbacks. We spent most of our time with 2 pods of two…

Aloha, We were met with some pretty strong trade winds on Monday for our two Guaranteed Whale Watch Cruises from Anaeho’omalu Bay. Guests on our 8AM Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw probably 10 different Humpbacks, and these whales were really active on the surface. Besides the three breaches we saw from about 500…

Aloha, Whoo-boy…the surf came up BIG time for us on the west coast of the island. The biggest waves rolled through on Friday (causing us to cancel our cruises because we couldn’t get anyone from the beach to the boat safely). By Saturday, the swell had diminished a bit, but there was definitely some motion…

Aloha, We operated back to back Whale Watch Cruises from Anaeho’omalu Bay on Thursday and they were like night and day. We spent a lot of time driving around during our Wake up with the Whales Cruise, resulting in just one brief sighting of a Humpback’s flukes from about 600 yards. When we deployed the…

Aloha, ‘Twas the day before Christmas, and the whales in the ocean, were up at the surface creating commotion… Ok, enough of that. But we did have some great Humpback sightings during our Tuesday Whale Watch Cruises. As we were leaving the harbor for our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise we spotted 2 juvenile…

Aloha, Our Monday Wake Up with the Whales Cruise began with sightings of a pod Spinner Dolphins about a mile offshore of Anaeho’omalu Bay. These little cetaceans seemed as happy to see us as we were to see them, because they made the choice to swim right over to the boat to play for awhile…

12/19/2024 Aloha, We ran a couple of very fun Whale Watch Cruises from Anaeho’omalu Bay on Thursday. Guests on our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise got to see a half dozen different Humpbacks multiple times. The cruise started with two huge splashes from a breaching Humpback about 800 yards from us, but on the…