Whales active from Dawn til Dusk

Aloha,

Tuesday morning was a great time to be on the water. On our Wake Up with the Whales Cruise on Seasmoke, we saw a LOT of whales. We watched one whale breach about 8 times, and another whale breach about 50 feet from someone on a kayak (both whale and kayaker were fine, though we’re betting each of them was a bit surprised by the other)!. We also saw peduncle throws, pec slaps and numerous tail lobs during this cruise. On Manu Iwa, we also saw a lot of whales, but the highlight had to have been the double breach. We often wonder what kind of communication occurs between two humpbacks in order to successfully breach simultaneously. And Captain Baker reports that guests joining us on our Sunset Cruise from Kawaihae had “an outstanding show”. He reports seeing whales all around and even under the boat. The whales were really active on the surface too — slapping their pectoral fins, peduncle throwing, and breaching.
Mahalo,
Claire
Captain Claire’s Humpback Fact of the Day: When we see a Humpback wave his pectoral fin, it looks really floppy — as if there were no bones inside it at all. But if you were to x-ray that fin, surprisingly, you’d find all the same bones and joints that we have in our arms — all the way down to the smallest digits of our fingers. Though according to researcher Spencer Wilkie Tinker, Humpbacks are missing what would be their third finger on a human.