Aloha, We ran just one Whale Watch Cruise this weekend…Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales. Guests joining us on this cruise had to wait till virtually the end of the trip before the Humpbacks decided to show themselves to us. Earlier in the trip, we saw a lone Humpback spout a couple of times before …

Aloha, Guests on Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to know a Mom Humpback and her calf. We found these two whales offshore of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, and once we arrived in their area, they stuck around with us for the rest of the cruise. They surfaced close enough to our …

Aloha, Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise was an incredible trip. It started off kind of slow…we headed south out of the harbor, and when we hadn’t seen any whales for about 15 minutes, we stopped to lower our hydrophone. We heard quite a bit, so we knew there were whales close by. Anyway, …

Aloha, Wednesday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise started off kind of slowly. It took us 20 minutes to see our first whales, but once we found them, they seemed as interested in us as we were in them. We spent most of the rest of our cruise watching this Mom/calf pod. On 2 different …

Aloha, On our way to investigate a couple of big spouts we saw out to sea during Tuesday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise, we came across a Humpback calf. Of course when we see a baby, we know Momma is there too, and we definitely weren’t disappointed when she surfaced. And when their escort surfaced…well, suffice …

Aloha, On Monday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise, we spent some significant time watching Mom Humpback and her little calf, though we almost missed seeing them entirely! We were headed out of the harbor going south, when Captain Kino caught a glimpse of a tiny spout behind him, so he turned the boat and …

Aloha, The only weekend Whale Watch Cruise we operated was Saturday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise. Guests on that cruise got to watch an interesting interaction between 2 adult Humpbacks. These whales were either curious about us or were more concerned with each other than they were with us, because they surfaced close to …

Aloha, Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise began with an unusual sighting of 3 Rough-Toothed  Dolphins. Unlike the Spinner Dolphins that we see more commonly, these dolphins didn’t show any interest in playing in our bow or stern wakes. We first saw them at our 12:00 about 50 yards away, and then saw them …

Aloha, We began Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise  escorted by a pod of around 100 Spinner Dolphins. The dolphins played for a bit in our bow wake and as we glanced around, we saw several of them spinning and leaping. After they tired of us, we headed south and found our same, easily …

Aloha, If you got a chance to read yesterday’s Whale Report, you’ll remember that we spent some time with a Mom/Calf duo. Well, we found the same Mom and Calf on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise — we recognized them because of their relative sizes, and also because of their very distinguishable white …