Aloha, We’ve had a whale-less week here on the Kohala Coast. Though we suppose there are Humpbacks somewhere in our near vicinity, we haven’t been able to find them. The Pacific Whale Foundation has set up a “Live Dolphin/Whale tracker app”, and a couple of their boats in Maui have reported seeing Humpbacks close to …
Aloha…and welcome back to our Whale Report Blog for the 2019/2020 season! As in year’s past, we’ll be using this report to give you an idea of what we’re seeing during our Whale Watch Cruises, and when we can, we’ll report on interesting whale sightings we have during our Snorkel Adventure Cruises and Pau Hana …
We’re really excited to announce that today, Wednesday, October 16th, guests aboard our Snorkel Adventure Cruise on Alala got to see the very first Humpback Whale of our 2019/2020 season! This morning, Captain Sam Stevenson reports that he saw 3 spouts and a tail from a lone, kind-of-small Humpback about 2 miles offshore of the …
Aloha, Guests joining us on Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got quite the ride! The trade winds were blowing hard, so we decided our best course of action would be to head right into them. It took us awhile, but we finally saw a spout offshore of Hapuna Beach. While we were maneuvering …
Aloha, We ran just one dedicated Whale Watch Cruise on Wednesday…our Mid-Morning Cruise on Alala. We were barely out of the harbor when we received a phone call from our good friends at Mauna Lani Sea Adventures who were watching a Mom/Baby/Escort trio off of Spencer Beach (which is just south of the harbor), so …
Aloha, Boy, we sure wish you were aboard for our one and only Whale Watch Cruise on Tuesday (and if you were, good choice)! Guests on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to watch a lone Humpback for about an hour. At times, this whale surfaced just 25 yards from our idling boat. …
Aloha, Monday was “Calf-Day” on the Kohala Coast. We ran 3 different cruises from two different locations, but guests on all of these trips got some great views of the next generation of Humpbacks. On our Mid-Morning Cruise, a Mom/Calf/Escort trio spent considerable time paralleling our boat, and at one point, surfacing fairly close to …
Aloha, We operated a mixed-bag of cruises over the weekend, including dedicated Whale Watch Cruises, Snorkel Cruises and Sunset Cruises (both Exclusive and Non-Exclusive), and had a mixed-bag of cetacean sightings. Highlights included listening to very interesting songs through our hydrophone during Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. We got to watch a pod …
Aloha, We didn’t operate any dedicated Whale Watch Cruises on Thursday, but we did take 160+ guests out on our 3 catamarans for an Exclusive Snorkel Cruise. Since each of the boats went to their “own” snorkel site, guests on each boat had different experiences. One thing we all had in common was finding ourselves …
Aloha, With just 11 days left in our spectacular 2018/2019 Whale Watch Season, I thought that instead of talking about what we saw on Wednesday’s Whale Watch Cruises, I’d offer another perspective. Sometimes the Humpbacks are so close to shore that we can stand on the beach and watch guests on our boats watching the …