Aloha,

We started our Whale Watching week off with a great show on our 8:00 Breakfast with the Whales cruise. guests saw 22 whales, including a competitive pod of very active whales throwing their peduncles and slapping their pec fins. The highlight of the trip though, was watching a baby whale breach more than 30 times! on our 10:00 Whale Watch, we saw 14 whales. We spent considerable time with a pod of 7 whales who kept surfacing all around the boat. According to our naturalist Mike, they didn’t seem to really be behaving aggressively — maybe they were just biding their time looking for a receptive female. And on our 3:00 Whales and Cocktails cruise we saw 10 whales. The trip started off kind of slow, but then we saw a spout near the Hilton Waikoloa Village. When we got about 100 yards away from it, we saw two more spouts…and then one of the whales breached right in front of us, followed by a spectacular synchronized double breach! After we stopped cheering, we saw a tiny spout a little further away, so we drove over to see Mom, baby and their escort. The baby was very curious and spent a lot of time checking us out (Mom allowed it), so we stayed in neutral and enjoyed the mugging.

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Humpback Whale Fact of the Day: The Humpbacks we see off Hawaii’s coastlines travel quite a bit between the islands, but researchers have yet to observe a directional trend. In other words, some whales travel North to South, some South to North, and some travel back and forth…a lot like our human visitors.

Mahalo,

Captain Claire