Aloha, We ran several cruises over the weekend, so here are just a few highlights: After we finished snorkeling on Saturday’s Private Snorkel Cruise, we saw 2 whales breaching simultaneously. As we headed out to see them, we encountered another Humpback duo who were soon joined by 2 more Humpbacks. This pod of 4 had …

Aloha, Guests on Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise saw a wide variety of Humpback behaviors. We started our cruise watching a Mom and her calf. The calf ventured over to see us, so we got some good views of him — and after Mom surfaced and spouted, she lifted her flukes ever so …

Aloha, We had a wonderful morning at sea on Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise. We started the trip surrounded by a pod of about 60 Spinner Dolphins. As was typical for the Spinners, as soon as they heard our boat they came over to investigate and play with the wake. While they were …

Aloha, When we got to the beach on Wednesday, the wind was blowing but we knew we could take Seasmoke out safely, so we boarded some folks and headed out on a Wake Up with the Whales Cruise. Despite the wind, we saw spouts, dorsal fins and even a few flukes from 5 different Humpbacks. …

Aloha, How does that saying go?? “When March comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb”…we sure hope that comes true because Monday was certainly a Lion of a day! We only ran one cruise on the first day of March — our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise. When our guests …

Aloha, We didn’t run any cruises on Sunday, but we did take folks out on two Whale Watch Cruises on Saturday. Both of these cruises departed from Kawaihae Harbor so we got to explore a different part of the coastline — and since it was pretty windy, we were happy to be able to take …

Aloha, The only cruise we operated on Friday was our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise. Though we saw spouts here and there, we spent most of our time with Momma Humpback, her calf, and some escorts. At first we weren’t entirely sure how many escorts were hanging around with Mom, but we knew there …

Aloha, We ran back-to-back Whale Watches on Seasmoke on Thursday from Anaeho’omalu Bay, and on both cruises we spent time watching Mom/Calf/Escort pods. During our Wake up With the Whales Cruise we had to travel a bit before we found our first Mom/Calf/Escort pod, but while we were watching them off our port side, one …

Aloha, We spent most of our Wednesday Wake Up with the Whales Cruise watching 2 different pods of our favorite trio of Humpbacks — Mom, her baby, and their escort.  One of these pods spent some time checking us out. Baby popped up only 10 feet from our idling boat, and for awhile we could …

Aloha, We began our Tuesday Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise positioned right between two Mom/Calf/Escort pods. It was kind of unusual to see these two pods so close together, but as is par for the course, the pods weren’t interacting with each other — and of course we saw a lot more of the calves than …