Aloha, Did you see any Humpbacks this past weekend? Guests cruising with us sure did! Here are some highlights: On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we saw multiple breaches (around a dozen) from various whales around us. We also watched 3 different pods of two sub-adult whales all in the same vicinity, doing …
Aloha, It was windy now and then during Thursday’s Whales & Cocktails at Sunset Cruise, but we got great views of a Mom/Calf/Escort pod. They were moving around quite a bit, and since all Humpbacks – even calves – spend a lot of their lives underwater, they weren’t nearly as affected by wind gusts as …
Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see spouts and/or dorsal fins and/or flukes from about a dozen different Humpbacks all between 100 and 400 yards from the boat. All of these whales were in pods of twos or threes, and most of them were just going about their business …
Aloha, Well the seas finally calmed down…and we were very excited to get back out there on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. It seemed like the whales were excited too, as we were seeing Humpback surface activity almost as soon as left the mooring. Guests on this cruise saw somewhere around 16 different …
Aloha, With the active winter storm warnings in the forecast, we knew on Sunday that we wouldn’t be able to operate safe and comfortable cruises on Monday, so we cancelled in advance. Good thing we did, because you can see in the photo what awaited us on Monday morning! With no whale sightings to report, …
Aloha, We began our weekend surrounded by Humpbacks. On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, guests saw multiple breaches from different whales in different directions. We spent most of our time watching a Mom/Baby/Escort pod…baby burned off some energy by breaching at least 7 times while we watched. We also got to see Mom …
Aloha, We literally saw dozens of Humpbacks during Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. It seemed that no matter which way we looked, we’d see a spout or a dorsal fin or flukes. But more exciting than the sheer number of whales around us was the interest that they showed in us. While we …
Aloha, Wow, did we have fun on Wednesday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise! We had just left the harbor when a pod of Spinner Dolphins veered over to check out the boat. They led us to a Mom/Calf/Escort pod that was hanging out right in front of the Kawaihae break wall. The baby whale was really …
Aloha, We watched 3 separate pods of Humpbacks during Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Each of these pods was just kind of hanging around, doing their own thing…surfacing, spouting a few times and then sounding. Later in the cruise we found a Mom, her calf and their escort in very shallow water (only …
Aloha, We saw a lot of different Humpbacks during Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise (maybe as many as 18) including a couple of breachers in the distance. We spent most of our time with a couple of different competitive pods who, as usual for competitive pods, were busily chasing and shoving each other …