Aloha, We have lots to report from our weekend Whale Watch Cruises. On Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise, we saw probably 20 different Humpbacks including mom and baby. Same thing with the 10:30 Cruise from Abay – – but this time the calf we were watching was much younger. Baby swam right under …
Aloha, We saw some interesting behaviors on our cruises on Thursday. We started the day with a pod of very active Spinner Dolphins who took a bee-line for our Wake up with the Whales Cruise as soon as they heard us. We could have watched them all day…but…we kept seeing some splashing going on from …
Aloha, The surf was UP on Wednesday, but we got out to sea and had an incredible time on our Wake up with the Whales Cruise. Besides seeing somewhere around 14 different Humpbacks (including one who breached), we found Mom with a very small calf. Baby’s dorsal fin was bent almost completely over indicating he …
Aloha, Guests on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see spouts and dorsal fins from 15 different Humpbacks. Most of them were several hundred yards away from us, but we did get a few close encounters. The first time it happened, we were sitting in idle with our hydrophone in the water …
Aloha, We took Seasmoke and Manu Iwa out for our Wake up with the Whales Cruise on Monday, and guests on both boats had similar experiences. As we were leaving the bay, we all saw some Humpbacks breaching….but as we got to them, they quieted down. There were a LOT of whales out there though, …
Aloha, The Humpbacks were sure singing loudly on Friday (click here for just one sound clip). Besides getting to listen to these whales, we also got to see quite a bit all day…highlights included watching Mom/Baby and Escort on our 10:00 Cruise, along with a very close breach from a different whale. A pod of …
Aloha, We ran all of our Thursday morning Whale Watch Cruise out of Anaeho’omalu Bay, and we used both boats all morning. Guests on Manu Iwa’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise were mugged (but in a good way)! One humpback found us especially interesting, swimming right underneath us and surfacing right next to us …
Aloha, The winds have subsided and now the surf is up on the Kohala Coast, but the Humpbacks were certainly cooperative for Wednesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise. We actually took out two boats from Anaeho’omalu for this cruise. Guests on Manu Iwa saw at least 8 different whales. Highlights included some competition between …
Aloha, Guests on Tuesday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to see one of our favorite pods…Mom, Baby, and Escort (for a definition of who the “escort” is, please see below). These three were gently swimming along the surface. Getting to see baby’s spout compared to his Mom’s (and the escort’s) really made us …
Aloha, The strong southwesterly winds caused us to cancel all of our Cruises on Monday. So instead of a recap of our sightings, I thought I’d share a great series of photos capturing a breach, courtesy of our own Captain Gary. For those of you unable to see the photos, here’s an interesting interpretation on …