Aloha, The weather was unbelievably beautiful for Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise…blue skies, light winds and very calm seas. Throughout the course of the cruise we got glimpses of 5 different Humpbacks. With the exception of one lone Humpback who surfaced and spouted several times before diving about 250 yards from us, all …

Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to know a Mom/Baby pod of Humpbacks pretty well. We first spotted their spouts to the south of the harbor so we headed over to take a look at them. Mom appeared to be pretty small (maybe 35 – 38 feet long), so we’re …

Aloha, The ocean was incredibly calm during Monday’s Wake up With the Whales Cruise. We love those conditions because not only does it mean that we can maneuver the boat in any direction, but it also means that we can see the whales from a long distance. Luckily, we didn’t need to use binoculars on …

Aloha, Have you ever played that game “Whack-A-Mole”? That’s what the beginning of Friday’s Wake Up With the Whales Cruise was like…but without the whacking. As soon as we’d turn our attention to a whale who had popped up to the surface to breathe, that whale would dive. It kept happening over and over and …

Aloha, Since my last report, we’ve taken more than 1200 people out on 26 different cruises (a BIG convention came to the island and pre-booked our boats). Since there’s no way I can provide details for so many cruises, suffice it to say, our interactions with the Humpbacks who were interested in us were fantastic. …

Aloha, The surf on the west side of the island was coming up fast during Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. It doesn’t really affect us that much when we’re far from shore, but we definitely could feel the slow rolling swell as the water moved beneath us. The whales probably could feel it …

Aloha, Thursday was just one of those perfect days on the water (calm seas, and light winds). We operated two Whale Watch Cruises on Alala and guests on each cruise easily saw 20 different Humpbacks. Highlights included lots of breaching whales (most from a distance, but we got to see a few of them at …

Aloha, We ran back-to-back Whale Watch Cruises from Kawaihae on Tuesday. Our first sighting on our first trip was just outside the harbor. After watching this lone whale spout and sound, we found a pod of 3 adults a bit further to our south. This pod didn’t spend too much time with us so after …

Aloha, Guests on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to listen to the Humpbacks singing BEFORE we even deployed our hydrophone. As soon as we turned off our engines during this cruise, we could hear the sounds reverberating through the hulls (for more on this, see today’s Fact of the Day). Of course …

Aloha, We had a lot of fun on our Whale Watch Cruises this past weekend. Here are just some of the highlights: We watched a Humpback surface just 50 feet from our boat during Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. When a whale chooses to spout that close-by, we can hear both her exhalations …