Aloha and Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!

The final day of 2013 was very good to guests aboard our Whale Watch Cruises. On our Breakfast with the Whales, there were so many Humpbacks that our onboard naturalist, Brooke lost count! She reports that everyone saw multiple tail lobs, breaches, and pec slaps, and she was so excited that she couldn’t finish her report!

Right after we dropped off the guests from our 8:00 trip, we picked up new guests for our 10:00 cruise and they got to see multiple Humpbacks as well. Most of our attention was focused on the whale who chose to focus his attention on us though, surfacing right next to us over and over and over again. We even got to see a breach right next to the boat! All in all, a great end to 2013!

Mahalo,

Claire

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Captain Claire’s Humpback Fact of the Day:Researchers have observed that female Humpbacks don’t associate with each other at all while they’re in Hawaii. This is especially interesting in light of the fact that the females do associate with each other in Alaska — they’ll even feed cooperatively there. Since the females come here just to mate (and calve), we can postulate that female-female interaction must somehow get in the way of successful mating. Maybe groups of females would attract too many competitive males for safe mating to occur….what do you think?