Aloha, Guests on joining us for Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see a nice mix of marine life. Besides some spouts in the distance, we did get to see one Humpback surface right next to the boat. Interestingly, he surfaced right in the middle of a school of small oi’oi’s that …
Aloha, If what we saw on Wednesday’s Signature Whale Watch is any indication, the Kohala Coast is turning into a Humpback nursery! We started our cruise sandwiched between two Mom/Baby pods — one about 100 yards off our bow, and the other about 150 yards off our starboard stern. Both of these pods were just …
Aloha, As soon as we left the Bay for Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we were challenged by our favorite dilemma — what do we go see first? We caught a glimpse of some blows from Mom and calf just south of us, but we also saw a pod of Spinner Dolphins. So we …
Aloha, Guests on Monday’s Signature Whale Watch from Kawaihae got to see lots of activity at the surface. Throughout the course of the cruise we got to watch 3 different Mom/calf pods…and two of them were accompanied by escorts. We also saw a LOT of breaching. Some of the breaches were out in the wind …
Aloha, We had some fun Whale Watch Cruises over the weekend. Friday’s Signature Whale Watch Cruise started out kind of slow as we searched for spouts. We found a couple of different competitive pods though, and it ended up being a great day with lots of double breaches, tail lobs, and pec slaps. The whale …
Aloha, We took out two boats for Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Guests on Manu Iwa spent considerable time watching two different competitive pods. These whales were all swimming really aggressively, trumpeting and smashing into each other at the surface (and we can only speculate on what was going on underwater…but we bet it was intense). …
Aloha, We were greeted by a breaching whale when we left the bay for Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. And that pretty much set the tone for the entire trip. We saw as many as 35 different Humpbacks during the cruise — they were popping up everywhere we looked. We also saw many, …
Aloha, Guests joining us on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see spouts and dorsal fins and even a few flukes from 5 different whales. It almost seemed to us like all the Humpback action was taking place underwater, because each time we deployed our hydrophone the songs and vocalizations we were …
Aloha, The size of the surf really surprised us when we got to work on Monday morning…the weather forecasts we read suggested we’d have a swell but nothing like what we encountered. But, we were still able to get the boat in and out of the bay safely, and we were glad we did. On …
Aloha, Lots of fun stuff to report from our weekend of Whale Watching! On Friday, guests on both our Wake up with the Whales Cruise and our 10:00 Whale Watch spent most of their time watching very active competitive pods. Our 8:00 Cruise could barely keep up with the pod as it headed north. On …