Aloha,
Guests on our Thursday Late-Morning Whale Watch Cruise got to see spouts, flukes and dorsal fins from a half dozen different Humpbacks. We spent some time watching a pod of two adults who were on 30 minutes dives, but these whales suprised us by surfacing just 50 yards from our iding boat. That whole anticipation game we play during Whale Watch Cruises just never gets old…when will the whales surface next?….where will the whales come up? And then, when the whales do spout, that moment when we’re all looking one direction and it’s the sound of their exhalation from an entirely different direction that alerts us to their presence…crazy….I guess that’s what makes these cruises so addicting!
Towards the end of the cruise, we got to watch a lone sub-adult surface and sound just outside of the bay. We deployed our hydrophone a couple of times during the cruise, and we eavesdropped on a lot of different whales’ voices — way more than what we heard during yesterday’s cruises.
Mahalo,
Claire
Ocean Sports Whale Fact of the Day: Before whaling was banned internationally, Humpback whales’ livers were processed for their oil, which contained a lot of vitamin A. A fully grown Humpback has a liver that weighs between 800 and 1400 pounds. An adult human’s liver averages between 3.2 and 3.7 lbs. (which means our livers are proportionally the same size to our overall body weight as theirs are).