Aloha, I can hardly believe I’m typing these words, but we just completed our final official dedicated Whale Watch Cruise of the season (where does the time go?)! Instead of describing everything we saw today, I think it’s best if I let the whales speak for themselves. Click here to listen to what we got …

Aloha, Are you still trying to decide whether to take a chance and join us aboard to see the Humpbacks this season? I don’t know if this will help you make the decision, but we’ll be operating dedicated Whale Watch Cruises through Friday (3/31), and we’re still seeing Humpbacks. On Monday’s Wake up with the …

Aloha, We never really know what to expect at the end of Humpback season. We try not to get our hopes up too high, but at the same time, we ALWAYS have high hopes for great Whale Watch Cruises. On Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise, we saw 5 different Humpbacks. Two of these …

Aloha, Guests joining us on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw 4 or 5 different Humpbacks multiple times. These whales were all several hundred yards from the boat, but since the ocean was so calm, we still got some good views of each of them. Towards the end of the cruise the whales …

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 …