Aloha,
We operated 4 Whale Watch Cruises since my last post.
Guests on our Saturday Wake Up with the Whales Cruise watched a Humpback who apparently didn’t get the message that this was a “Wake-Up” Cruise. We first found this lone whale north of the bay, and the entire time we watched, he appeared to be resting. We saw him 4 different times, and each of those times, he spouted a couple of times before slipping beneath the surface — he never even lifted his flukes before diving — he just kind of disappeared.
We couldn’t find this Humpback during our second Saturday Cruise — in fact we couldn’t find any Humpbacks at all, so we called the cruise a “Fluke” and invited everyone aboard to join us again on another Whale Watch Cruise for FREE.
We didn’t operate any Whale Watch Cruises on Sunday, but on Monday, we got to go out twice — once for our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise, and then again for our Late Morning Whale Watch Cruise. Guests on both trips met the same pod of two whales that were hanging out just north of the bay. These whales were on the largish side and seemed to be resting together cooperatively (at least we didn’t see any aggressive interactions between them on the surface). During our first cruise, we also got to see a breaching whale a bit further out to sea, but he only breached once, so we decided not to leave our pair to investigate. During the second cruise, we got to see a pod of Spinner Dolphins following our two Humpbacks as they cruised slowly down the coastline. We deployed our hydrophone several times throughout the morning, but all the singers were pretty far away.
Mahalo,
Claire
Ocean Sports Whale Fact of the Day: Humpbacks produce sounds in frequencies ranging from 10 hz to 24 khz. A healthy young adult human can generally hear sounds in frequencies between the ranges of 20 hz to 20 khz which means that we’re not hearing everything the whales are singing.