Aloha, Guests on Friday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise were met and escorted just outside of the harbor by a pod of about 40 Spinner Dolphins. After cruising south with them for awhile, we stopped the boat to deploy the hydrophone. We heard a few whales singing (which boded well for future sightings). Later …
Aloha, Guests on our Private Snorkel Cruise on Thursday spent the first part of the cruise watching a lone whale. This whale originally caught our attention by breaching, but we only saw that one time– the rest of the time, we watched him surface and spout. He was very distinctive looking as he was very …
Aloha, On Wednesday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise Captain Ryan caught a glimpse of a spout way out to sea. It was a small spout, so we figured the whale might have been a calf, but at least while we watched, we saw no evidence of Mom (maybe our whale was a lone yearling). Anyway, …
Aloha, We traveled a ways out to sea on Monday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise to watch a Mom/Calf/Escort pod. Once we arrived at the area where we thought they’d be, we went into idle and waited. Sure enough, these whales surfaced close by, and then they kept surfacing closer and closer. At one …
Aloha, We ran just one Whale Watch Cruise this weekend…Saturday’s Wake up with the Whales. Guests joining us on this cruise had to wait till virtually the end of the trip before the Humpbacks decided to show themselves to us. Earlier in the trip, we saw a lone Humpback spout a couple of times before …
Aloha, Guests on Friday’s Wake up with the Whales Cruise got to know a Mom Humpback and her calf. We found these two whales offshore of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, and once we arrived in their area, they stuck around with us for the rest of the cruise. They surfaced close enough to our …
Aloha, Thursday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise was an incredible trip. It started off kind of slow…we headed south out of the harbor, and when we hadn’t seen any whales for about 15 minutes, we stopped to lower our hydrophone. We heard quite a bit, so we knew there were whales close by. Anyway, …
Aloha, Wednesday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise started off kind of slowly. It took us 20 minutes to see our first whales, but once we found them, they seemed as interested in us as we were in them. We spent most of the rest of our cruise watching this Mom/calf pod. On 2 different …
Aloha, On our way to investigate a couple of big spouts we saw out to sea during Tuesday’s Mid-Morning Whale Watch Cruise, we came across a Humpback calf. Of course when we see a baby, we know Momma is there too, and we definitely weren’t disappointed when she surfaced. And when their escort surfaced…well, suffice …
Aloha, On Monday’s Wake Up with the Whales Cruise, we spent some significant time watching Mom Humpback and her little calf, though we almost missed seeing them entirely! We were headed out of the harbor going south, when Captain Kino caught a glimpse of a tiny spout behind him, so he turned the boat and …