Who’s Watching Whom?

Aloha,
We had multiple breaches right off the bat as we left A’bay on our Breakfast with the Whale Cruise on Monday. There seemed to be a whale on the surface no matter which direction we looked, and we saw some great fluke shots throughout the trip. On the 10:00 Whale Watch we had a lot of activity pretty close to the boat. We focused on 3 whales who pretty much swarmed us. We saw lots of breaches and lots of other surface activities from this pod. And on the Whales and Cocktails, we got mugged for about 15 minutes by three HUGE whales! Everyone on board was just blown away by the whales’ attention to us. We’re not the kind of people who like to say we’re the most interesting thing in the ocean, but for these 3 whales, for at least 15 minutes, we were!
Mahalo,
Claire
Captain Claire’s Humpback Whale Fact of the Day: The Whales “mugging” us are definitely taking a look at us. Though Humpbacks rely on their sense of hearing far more than any other sense, we do know that vision is also important to them. Based on the shape of the Humpbacks’ corneas, they can certainly see us…but, they’re probably a bit farsighted when looking through water and a bit nearsighted when looking through the air. And in case anyone asks you, Humpbacks have beautiful brown eyes. Their eyeballs weigh, on average, 2.16 pounds. Human eyeballs weigh about a quarter of an ounce.

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