Humpback Whales

January 17, 2024 Aloha, The ocean was a bit bouncy during Tuesday’s Private Whale Watch Cruise from Kawaihae, and that may have energized the Humpbacks because we got to see quite a lot of surface activity. We spent most of our time with a Mom/Calf/Escort pod who were hanging out about a mile offshore of…

January 16, 2024 Aloha, Monday’s Whale Watch Cruises were down right crazy. Shortly after leaving the bay on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we were met with a Mom/calf pair. We got some good looks at them as they headed north but before too long, we were distracted by a couple of big…

January 15, 2024 Aloha, After a turbulent week of weather, we were finally able to get back onto the ocean this weekend. Guests joining us on Saturday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise got to see a lot. Besides the couple of Humpbacks who were breaching about a mile to our northwest, we also saw spouts and…

January 11, 2024 Aloha, Wednesday’s ocean was still all excited from Tuesday’s storms, and the whales seemed pretty excited too. Guests on our Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise were met just outside the harbor by a curious Humpback who surfaced out of nowhere pretty close to the boat. Captain Sam immediately shifted into neutral and we…

January 9, 2024 Aloha, Whoo – boy — Monday’s Whale Watch Cruises were a lot of fun! We spent most of our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise drifting along with a pod of 5 very competitive Humpbacks. These whales were definitely showing off their size and strength (and probably their annoyance and irritation) to…

January 8, 2024 Aloha, The seas were calm but the Humpbacks were not for Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay. We spent most of the trip drifting with an interested Humpback at our stern. This whale surfaced multiple times right behind the boat, and in between his surfacings, we were able…

January 2, 2024 Aloha, We hope your new year is off to a wonderful start! I apologize for the lack of posts the past few days, but we’ve been operating a lot of Private Cruises. While we’re seeing whales during those cruises, since that isn’t the main objective of the cruise, I won’t be reporting…

December 28, 2023 Aloha, Guests joining us on our Wednesday Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise from Kawaihae Harbor got to meet a Humpback calf. Though we aren’t entirely sure, we’re guessing that this is the same calf we’ve seen off and on during our Kawaihae cruises for the past week or so. Every time we see…

December 26, 2023 Aloha, We hope you had a wonderful weekend and a Mele Kalikimaka (for those who celebrated it). We were on the water a lot since my last report, so I’ll just include a few trip highlights. Saturday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise started with sightings of a very active Mom/Baby duo just outside…

December 23, 2023 Aloha, Our 2 Whale Watch Cruises on Friday were like night and day. Guests on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay saw a couple of spouts from various Humpbacks, but none of the spouts were close, and we weren’t able to get to any of the spouters before…