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 …
Aloha, I hope your weekend was as interesting as ours! On Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise we saw all kinds of interesting sea creatures…including a good size shark who seemed to be accompanying a pod of 2 whales who were underwater with 19 minute dive cycles. We also saw something swimming along the …
Aloha, We started the last day of January cruising towards a beautiful rainbow. Of course rainbows are often accompanied by rain, and though we managed to avoid it at sea, even if we hadn’t, we figured a little rain wouldn’t affect the whales…they’re always wet anyway! Guests on our Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise spent considerable …
Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw at least 10 different Humpbacks. We spent most of our time with a competitive pod of 4 big adult whales who stayed a little over 100 yards away from us They were chasing around on the surface, breathing hard, and lunging at each other. …
Aloha, The winds were still blowing on Tuesday morning during our Wake up with the Whales Cruise, so maybe that accounted for how excited the whales in our area seemed to be. We saw a LOT of breaches — at least 12 from a pod about a mile and a half away from us, and …
Aloha, We were met with challenging ocean conditions for Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, but of course, the Humpbacks spend most of their time under the surface (especially on days like today), so they weren’t as affected. Saying that, we did see Humpbacks…including a pod of two who surprised us by surfacing and …
Aloha, Lots to report from our weekend of Whale Watching, so I’ll get right to it. On Friday’s Mid-Morning Cruise we found an energetic Mom/Baby pod early in the cruise. Mom breached twice, and baby, getting in on the fun, breached too many times to keep track of. We also watched a competitive pod of …
Aloha, Guests on Thursday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise saw at least 8 different Humpbacks, but it was challenging to know where to look. Whales were surfacing, spouting, and sounding in every direction, and not in any particular pattern we could figure out. Towards the end of the cruise though, we found a more …