Aloha, On our Wednesday Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we saw lots and lots of spouts. There were Humpbacks in all directions, and they all seemed to be in the “surfacing-spouting a few times-and diving” mode. We got some great views of many of their flukes too. After we dropped off the guests from …
Aloha, Guests on our 8:00 Wake up with the Whales Cruise on Tuesday saw so much, it’s kind of hard to break it down to just a single paragraph. Before we had even left the bay we could see spouts, and as we headed towards these whales, a pod of Spinner Dolphins came to escort …
I have sailed on SeaSmoke a lot, many crossings of the Alenuihaha channel and countless whale watch and snorkel cruises. However my favorite SeaSmoke adventure took place on July 11 1991 when SeaSmoke was a young twenty-four year old. This particular cruise did not go very far. We were not looking for whales or fishes …
Aloha, Guests joining us on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see more than 40 minutes of aggressive interaction between three whales that were obviously trying to work something out between themselves. We watched as they charged by us a multitude of times, trumpeting, twisting and kind of half diving below the surface. …
Aloha, On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise we saw 14 different Humpbacks, including one who decided to spend considerable time looking at us (which is what we call a “mugging”). This whale cruised around the boat right under the surface for more than 15 minutes. We’re not sure who was having a better …
Aloha, We had a wonderful time on Thursday’s 10:00 Whale Watch from Kawaihae. We spent the first part of the cruise heading towards spouts we saw to the south of us. Each time we’d arrive at the spot where we had seen a spout, the whales were already long gone. But we finally we saw …
Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see spouts in every direction we looked! All these whales were in the “blow and go” mode…surfacing, spouting and diving again. We spent some time at idle, and once again, patience paid off when a pod of two whales surfaced about 100 yards …
Aloha, Both Manu Iwa and Seasmoke left the bay at 8:00 carrying guests to take a look at the Humpbacks on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Guests on each boat had similar experiences, seeing somewhere around 15 different Humpbacks. We saw lots of “blowing and going” as the whales surfaced, spouted a few …
Aloha, Guests joining us on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw 6 different Humpbacks. Most of the time we were watching spouting and sounding behaviors from a lone whale who was on 10 – 15 minute dives. Towards the end of the cruise, we saw some action in front of the Hilton Waikoloa …
Aloha, We ran quite a few trips this past weekend…and saw too much to report in detail, so here are some highlights. On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise we saw 6 different Humpbacks, including one who breached 5 times just 100 yards from us. We also saw pec slapping and tail lobbing from …