Aloha,
We had kind of a mixed bag of experiences on our second to last day of Whale Watch Season. Guests on our Monday Wake up with the Whales Cruise were blown down the coast, paralleling a solo Humpback who was either coincidently swimming at the same speed as us…or was also riding the wind on the surface. We got a lot of glimpses of him but since the wind was blowing us away from the bay to the south, we eventually had to turn away from our whale and beat back up into the wind. On the way back to the bay we were surprised when a Humpback surfaced about 10 yards from us. This whale was also heading south, and since we didn’t have time to parallel him, we watched from the stern. After a few minutes, our new friend started breaching over and over again. He wasn’t particularly close to us during this spate of activity, but since we had all been looking at him, we all got to see those breaches and subsequent splashes.
When we left the bay for our Late-Morning Whale Watch Cruise, we were hoping our Humpbacks from the first cruise had changed course and were waiting for us somewhere outside the bay. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, and though we covered a lot of ground during the cruise, we never got to see any Humpbacks, so we called the trip a “Fluke” and invited everyone on board to join us again for FREE.
Mahalo,
Claire
Ocean Sports Whale Fact of the Day: According to researchers, the first whales to leave Hawaii each year are mature females (who are either newly pregnant, or taking time off between pregnancies), followed by sub adult whales, and then, mature males. The last to leave are new mothers with their newborn calves.