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 …

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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 …

Aloha, Guests on Tuesday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise got to see 6 different Humpbacks multiple times. Most of the sightings were from a couple hundred yards away, but twice, whales surfaced about 100 yards from us. Those of us who were looking at the right place at the right time also got to see a …

Aloha, What did you miss by not joining us for Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise? A LOT! We started the cruise with sightings of a breach way out on the horizon, but before we could get even part of the way there two whales surfaced and spouted about 100 yards from us, so …

Aloha, The surf was up on Friday, and as is often the case, the Humpbacks seemed to prefer deeper water further from shore (for more on this, see today’s Fact of the Day). On our Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we had to travel 3 miles out before we even saw any whales, but …