Aloha, On Wednesday we ran only one whale watch… but guests aboard our Breakfast with the Whales Cruise had quite the experience! We started the cruise by watching a whale breach 3 times. It was so exciting that it took our collective breath away (we can only imagine how the whale must have felt after all that exertion). And then we found a  pod  of two adults – or rather, they found us! They seemed to think we were something worth investigating because they swam around us, looking at us for a long time. We were theorizing that these whales were both male and that they were thinking that our long, sleek hulls were shaped a lot like a female whale…And just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, these two whales were joined by a third whale who decided to “mug” us for awhile too. Days like today make us very excited to see what tomorrow will bring.

Mahalo,

Claire

Captain Claire’s Humpback Whale Fact of the Day:  Humpback whales can’t cry — they don’t have tear ducts (they don’t need them — their eyes are always bathed in salt water) but they do have glands on their outer corneas which secrete an oily substance that helps to protect their eyes from debris in the ocean