Aloha, We had some fun Whale Watch Cruises over the weekend. Friday’s Signature Whale Watch Cruise started out kind of slow as we searched for spouts. We found a couple of different competitive pods though, and it ended up being a great day with lots of double breaches, tail lobs, and pec slaps. The whale …
Aloha, We took out two boats for Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Guests on Manu Iwa spent considerable time watching two different competitive pods. These whales were all swimming really aggressively, trumpeting and smashing into each other at the surface (and we can only speculate on what was going on underwater…but we bet it was intense). …
Aloha, We were greeted by a breaching whale when we left the bay for Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. And that pretty much set the tone for the entire trip. We saw as many as 35 different Humpbacks during the cruise — they were popping up everywhere we looked. We also saw many, …
Aloha, Guests joining us on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see spouts and dorsal fins and even a few flukes from 5 different whales. It almost seemed to us like all the Humpback action was taking place underwater, because each time we deployed our hydrophone the songs and vocalizations we were …
Aloha, The size of the surf really surprised us when we got to work on Monday morning…the weather forecasts we read suggested we’d have a swell but nothing like what we encountered. But, we were still able to get the boat in and out of the bay safely, and we were glad we did. On …
Aloha, Lots of fun stuff to report from our weekend of Whale Watching! On Friday, guests on both our Wake up with the Whales Cruise and our 10:00 Whale Watch spent most of their time watching very active competitive pods. Our 8:00 Cruise could barely keep up with the pod as it headed north. On …
Aloha, We had a spectacular day of whale sightings on Thursday. We took out two boats for our Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Guests on Manu Iwa saw lots of different Humpbacks but were totally entertained by a very energetic calf who kept breaching and breaching and breaching. We weren’t sure if his Mom was trying to …
Aloha, The stormy weather moved our way early on Wednesday, so we weren’t able to run our Wake up with the Whales Cruise. But the ocean was calm for our 10:00 Signature Whale Watch from Kawaihae, and what a great cruise that ended up being! We saw at least 8 different Humpbacks through the course …
Aloha, We had some height-of-the-season whale sightings on Tuesday’s cruises. On our Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we spent the first hour or so just cruising around looking at (and enjoying) spouts and flukes and dorsal fins from more than a dozen different Humpbacks. We stopped the boat for awhile to deploy the hydrophone …
Aloha, We had a lot of fun with the Humpbacks on Monday. We took out two boats for our Wake up with the Whales Cruise and though we left from the same place at the same time, guests on each boat had different experiences. Those who joined us on Manu Iwa were watching whales even before …