Aloha, As our 2022/2023 Whale Season winds down, a lot of people are asking us if we’re still seeing Humpbacks. Short answer: Yep! Guests joining us on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise spent considerable time with a Mom/Calf pod. Baby was pretty busy learning to be a Humpback, and we got to see …
Aloha, We only operated one dedicated Whale Watch Cruise this past weekend — Saturday’s Mid-Morning Cruise from Kawaihae. The trip became a fun one though as soon as we spotted a competitive pod breaching multiple times off in the distance. Since we were on Alala, we were able to put the boat in higher gear, …
Aloha, There was a lot going on during Thursday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise from Kawaihae. As we were leaving the harbor, we had hardly even gotten to the end of our safety briefing before we saw Humpbacks splashing. All those splashes turned out to be from a Mom/Calf/Escort trio who were breaching and breaching and …
Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise spent most of the trip with a lone (and possibly lonely) whale. This big Humpback was in a slow, surfacing and sounding pattern, and we got to see his very white flukes on a number of occasions. When we deployed our hydrophone, we only heard …
Aloha, We had to travel way up north to find some excited Humpbacks on our Tuesday Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise from Kawaihae. These whales were definitely trying to prove something to each other. Though we never witnessed a clear resolution to their interactions, we did get to see a whole lot of head lunging and …
Aloha, Guests on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise wanted to wake the whales up! We spent most of our cruise watching two different Mom/Calf/Escort trios. Each of these pods was just a bit north of the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort (so we didn’t need to travel far). The calves in each of these …
Aloha, I apologize for the lack of recent posts, but to be honest, we’ve had nothing to report. A couple of very strong weather fronts moved through the island chain towards the middle of last week, so we ended up cancelling entire days’ worth of cruises. The ocean finally calmed down enough for us to …
Aloha, Monday morning’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise was so much fun that we ended up staying out an extra 15 minutes! We started the cruise watching a competitive pod of 4 whales — 3 of whom were definitely battling. We saw a whole bunch of pec slaps and tail lobs and even a …
Aloha, I’m happy to report that our crazy winds have finally died down, allowing us to enjoy some great Whale Watching on Friday and again on Saturday. On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay, we spent the beginning of the cruise watching lots of whales spouting, and several fluke dives. Those …