Humpback Whales

Aloha, There was another big swell hitting the island on Thursday, but luckily, it didn’t affect our whale sightings. Guests on our 8AM Wake Up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay met a very young calf and his Mom just south of the bay. This little one still had a bent-over dorsal fin indicating…

Aloha, Both the weather and the Humpbacks were calm during Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor. Sure, we did get to see 3 separate breaches from lone whales who were quite a distance apart from each other offshore of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, but we spent most of our cruise…

Aloha, According to our onboard naturalist Nolan, Monday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise was quite “eventful”, and after you read about what we saw in just 90 minutes, we think you’ll agree that his description is a bit of an understatement. Just south of Anaeho’omalu Bay, we watched a sub-adult Humpback breach half a…

Aloha, Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor was an exciting one. It began with us finding ourselves the object of interest for a lone Humpback Whale who decided to surface right next to us and check us out for more than 10 minutes. Later in the cruise the same thing happened…but…

  Aloha, We hadn’t even gotten off of our mooring when we saw our first breaches during our Thursday Wake up with the Whales Cruise out of Anaeho’omalu Bay. These whales were about 1000 yards from us, and we still had to navigate out of the bay in order to approach them, so by the…

  Aloha, Based on the weather forecast posted on Wednesday, we weren’t sure what we were going to see when we woke up on Thursday morning, but the strong winds and rain that were supposed to be hitting us hadn’t filled in yet, so we boarded our guests and headed out to sea for our…

Aloha, Tuesday morning’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae started out pretty quiet. Sure, we saw a lot of spouts from a lot of different Humpbacks, but none of them was doing much on the surface besides spouting and diving. We got a couple of close looks at a Mom/Calf duo who surfaced…

Aloha, As we boarded our guests for our Monday Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we could see a storm with lightening off to the northwest…near Maui. Luckily the lightening didn’t come our way, or we would have had to cancel the trip out of an abundance of caution. We headed south (away from any…

Aloha, Whoo-boy, we witnessed a battle royale during Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise departing from Anaeho’omalu Bay. As we were leaving the bay, we saw spouts everywhere — there sure are a lot of Humpbacks hanging out on the Kohala Coast these days! Captain Maika chose to turn to port (that’s a “left-hand…

Aloha, Guests on our Thursday Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay were greeted by a curious sub-adult Humpback. This 30 footer swam right up to our port bow and then down the rail, just about 6 feet below the surface, clearly checking us out. Later in the cruise we were almost T-boned…