Aloha, The winds were blowing, and the ocean was a bit bumpy during Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, so we couldn’t stop to deploy our hydrophone. Even though we couldn’t listen to the whales, we still got to see them. We found a fairly big lone whale towards the beginning of the cruise …
Aloha, Guests on Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got the opportunity to know a very active Humpback. We first saw this whale offshore of the Hilton Waikoloa Village – actually we were alerted to his presence by all the splashing we saw. Even from quite a distance we could see he was slapping …
Aloha, Wednesday marked the first day of Spring, and we celebrated the equinox with the Humpbacks. We found a Mom/Baby pod right out of the harbor on our Mid-Morning Cruise, and watched them for more than 20 minutes. Baby did lots of dives down to her waiting Mom, and Mom made a few surface appearances …
Aloha, What a difference a day makes — the big swell we were experiencing on Monday was virtually gone by Tuesday morning, and the whales were out in full force. On our Wake Up With the Whales Cruise, guests saw 10 different Humpbacks in 4 different pods all around us. We spent at least 30 …
Aloha, The weather forecasters were correct, and the surf was up on Monday. Those big rolling waves didn’t seem to affect the whales though. Guests on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw 7 different Humpbacks. We spent most of our time with a Mom/Baby/Escort pod who seemed content to hang out within 100 …
Aloha, Hope your weekend was as interesting as ours! Guests on Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw spouts, dorsal fins, and/or flukes from more than a dozen whales. We got to watch a couple of very tiny calves diving around their moms, and watch a large lone Humpback lift his flukes as he …
Aloha, We had a beautiful day on the water on Thursday! Guests on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw 8 different Humpbacks, We spent most of our time watching two different Mom/Baby/Escort pods. Each of the whales in these pods was very calm. We got to see the baby in the first pod …
Aloha, The trade winds were blowing for our Wednesday Wake up with the Whales Cruise making maneuvering to all the different Humpbacks we were seeing a bit more challenging. But Captain Ikaika still managed to get us in range to get good views of 2 different Mom/Calf pods (one of those pods also included an …
Aloha, Guest on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see six different pods of Humpbacks all in front of Anaeho’omalu Bay. In the beginning of the cruise we watched some whales breaching, but before we could motor to them, we encountered a Mom/Baby pod. These two stayed with us for over an …
Aloha, The theme for Monday’s Whale Watch Cruises was “Baby Humpbacks”. Before we even left the mooring on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise we were looking at spouting whales. Unfortunately, by the time we were able to get to where we thought those whales were, they had disappeared, so we headed out to sea to …