Aloha, We were greeted by a pod of curious Spinner Dolphins as we left the bay on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Though we certainly never want to bother the dolphins when they’re resting after a night of feeding on the weird little squid and fish that migrate vertically in what’s called “the …
Aloha, We spent part of our morning on Thursday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise with Momma Humpback and her young calf. The baby was in resting mode, and we actually got to see him laying on Mom’s rostrum (her big head). The two of them were accompanied by an escort (not “Dad”, unless it was a …
Aloha, We didn’t have to go far outside of Anaeho’omalu Bay before we saw our first spouts on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. In fact, all the whales we got to watch during the cruise (at least the close-by whales) were pretty much directly outside of the bay. We spent the entire cruise …
Aloha, We started off Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise watching an adult Humpback breach not one, not two, not three…but FOUR times just about 150 yards from our boat. After that final breach, we figured he was exhausted and were just about to leave the area when he surprised us by resurfacing and …
Aloha, We operated a couple of cruises over the weekend, so here are just a few highlights. On Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise we spent time with a pod of 3 big adult Humpbacks (presumably a female and 2 potential “boyfriends”). They were all fairly calm, but surfaced and dove almost simultaneously giving …
Aloha, We saw 7 different Humpbacks during Thursday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise — 2 duos and one three-some. Our pod of three stayed about 400 yards from us — they all were adult whales (we could tell based on the size of their spouts). They didn’t appear to be competing with each other (at least …
Aloha, In the words of our on-board naturalist Captain Maika, “Tuesday’s Whale Watch Cruise was FAN-TAS-TIC”! It wasn’t just that we got to see 10 different Humpbacks over the course of the cruise. And it wasn’t just that the first pair we encountered surfaced within 100 yards of us giving all of us a good …
Aloha, Guests on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see 8 different Humpbacks. Though most of us saw 2 breaches from whales that were fairly far from us, all of us got to see a couple of other two-somes fairly close-by. The first pod of 2 we encountered were both adult Humpbacks. …
Aloha, Guests on Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise were MUGGED by a curious Humpback. But before I get to that, I’ll tell you what else we got to see. Over the course of the cruise we found 10 different Humpbacks, including a Mom/Baby pair who were resting just offshore of Anaeho’omalu Bay. We …
Aloha, We’ve had calm winds the last few days, and though the swell is still here, the whales we’ve been seeing have been mirroring the wind, mostly just surfacing, spouting and diving. Exceptions to this calm behavior happened during Wednesday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise when seemingly out of nowhere, one Humpback decided to …