Aloha, Thursday morning’s Whale Watch got rained out, but by the time the Whales and Cocktails at Sunset Cruise was ready to board the storm had passed. Our first Humpback sighting on this cruise was way north of the harbor, when we saw a lone whale’s flukes as he took a dive. We motored over to …
Aloha, Guests on Wednesday’s 10:00 Whale Watch from Kawaihae got to see 4 different Humpbacks. Most of them were “blowin’ and goin’”…which means exactly what you’d think it would mean. But, we also got to see one full breach, and several peduncle throws. Mahalo, Claire Captain Claire’s Humpback Fact of the Day: A fully grown Humpback …
Aloha, We saw Humpbacks all day on Tuesday. On our 8:00 Wake up with the Whales Cruise from Anaeho’omalu Bay, the sightings began minutes after we left the bay. In total, we saw 8 different Humpbacks. Most were just surfacing, spouting, and diving, but we did see one whale slap his huge pectoral flipper (“arm”) …
Aloha, Monday’s 10:00 Whale Watch left the harbor under cloudy skies, but we’ve always maintained that the whales don’t care about the rain…they’re wet anyway. After cruising north for awhile, we came across a couple of fairly large humpbacks who were swimming together. We hung out with them through 4 cycles of surfacing, spouting and …
Aloha, Our first weekend of Whale Watching was quite successful! On both Friday and Sunday, we operated Wake up with the Whales Cruises out of Anaeho’omalu Bay and had similar experiences on each of them, with several sightings of Humpbacks who were just surfacing, spouting a couple of times and then diving. On Sunday’s cruise …
Aloha, Thursday marked our first day of our official Whale Watch Season! Our morning cruise got rained out, but the rain at the shoreline was actually something completely different at altitude. The storms passed by before our 1st Whales and Cocktails at Sunset Cruise, and when we looked up from our decks, we were delighted …
We’re excited to announce that the first Humpback of our 2016/2017 Whale Season was spotted during our Thanksgiving Day Snorkel Cruise. Captain Jeff Baker reports seeing the lone humpback at the surface, slashing his peduncle, and creating a big splash. Though none of our guests were looking the right way to see the whale, our …
Aloha, Have you been to the beach in the past few days? It sure looks (and feels) like winter! With our latest big northwest swell, the surf has been up. And, as I mentioned in yesterday’s post, big swells seem to coincide with whale sightings further from the shoreline. On Thursday’s Wake up with the …
Aloha, The surf was up on Wednesday, and just as on many other high surf days, we needed to travel further out to sea to find Humpbacks — we’re not sure if the Humpbacks feel the underwater surges and move to deeper water on big surf days, or if our observations are just coincidental. We …
Aloha, Guests on Tuesday’s 10:00 Whale Watch from Kawaihae Harbor were greeted by a pod of about 50 Spinner Dolphins before we even got of the harbor. The dolphins did a swim-by and apparently decided that they had something better to do…because after quickly checking us out they continued on their way. So we did …