An Actual Arc of Breaches
Aloha, We spend the first 70 minutes of our Tuesday 90 minute Wake up with the Whales Cruise watching multiple pods of two and three Humpbacks spouting pretty much everywhere we looked. We couldn’t approach any of these whales even to the 100 yard mark because each of the pods was being watched by other…
It Happened Twice
Aloha, We were surrounded by spouting whales during our Monday morning Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Throughout the course of the cruise we must have seen at least 2 dozen different Humpbacks, including two different Mom/Calf/Escort pods. The calf from one of these pods clearly wanted to check us out, but sadly it didn’t…
Are You Patient Enough?
Aloha, No one is sure if it was Cato the Elder or Chaucer who first wrote that patience is a virtue, but if you’re an avid whale watcher you know this to be true. Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise was a case in point. We spent the beginning of the cruise seeing spouts…
Now THIS was Fun!
Aloha, Watch what happened to us during our Wake up with the Whales Cruise on Saturday! Mahalo, Claire Ocean Sports Whale Fact of the Day: Was the whale who came to visit us on Saturday really looking at us? We think so. Though Humpbacks rely on their sense of hearing far more than any other sense, we do know that vision is also important to them. Based on the shape of the Humpbacks’ corneas, they can certainly see us…but, they’re probably a bit farsighted when looking through water and a bit nearsighted when looking through the air. And in case anyone asks you, Humpbacks have beautiful brown eyes. Their eyeballs weigh, on average, 2.16 pounds. Human eyeballs weigh about a quarter of an ounce.
Major Weight Loss Diet
Aloha, Everyone aboard Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise got to see a Humpback on the surface at least 20 different times. We were watching 7 different Humpbacks all within 50 to 250 yards of us who were all on 10 minute dive cycles. Since they hadn’t synchronized those dives, it seemed like there…
Well, That Was Different
Aloha, It seems like I’ve been writing this phrase a lot lately…”The surf was up again” but…the surf was up again for Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor. That meant that the conditions at the dock were surgy, but once we got out of the harbor and into deeper water, all…
Some Sub-Adults
Aloha, The surf was up again for Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay. As soon as we got out of the bay though, we really couldn’t feel the swells. Guests on the cruise got to see 8 different Humpbacks. We spent a lot of our time with a pod of 3…
A Welcome Surprise
Aloha, Guests on Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise spent some time with 3 different pods comprised of 2 Humpbacks each. We saw our first pod just as we were leaving the harbor, directly in front of us. These 2 whales were fully grown — and surfacing, spouting and sounding. While we were watching…
Goose Bumps or Chicken Skin – Does it really matter?
Aloha, Do you have a favorite Humpback behavior? I do — for some reason watching a Humpback spy-hopping is just mesmerizing to me. Something about watching the whale moving in what seems like a slow-motion vertical elevator ride until her eyes are above the surface of the ocean just gives me goose-bumps (or as we…
Lazy and Loud
Aloha, According to Captain Will, our final Whale Watch of 2024 can be described with just 2 words…Loud and Lazy. Guests joining us on this Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor got to see spouts from 8 or so different Humpbacks. We spent most of our time with 2 pods of two…