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The Humpbacks journey to Hawaii is focused on breeding and calving. The warm tropical waters provide the perfect destination for female humpbacks to deliver their 2.5 ton newborns.

More Humpback Whale Trivia:

  • Did you know that a baby humpback drinks more milk in one day than a human baby does in one year.
  • Did you know that a baby humpback doubles its body length in a year?
  • The newborn humpback baby is 2 tons or 4,000 lbs at birth.
  • A baby humpback can gain up to 200 lbs per day just on mother’s milk alone.
  • For every one breath that a whale takes to match it humans would have to take over 3,000.
  • A humpback exhales the air in its lungs at over 300 mph or 49 feet per second.
  • The tale is 15 feet wide and it weighs four tons.
  • Whales take in enough water with each mouthful when feeding to fill up a swimming pool.
  • The pattern on the their tale is unique to each whale like our fingerprints.
  • Humpback Whales when feeding in Alaska eat a ton of food per day or the equivalent of 8,000 quarter pounders per day.
  • Humpback whales don’t eat while they are here in Hawaii.
  • Humpbacks can carry up to 1000 pounds of barnacles attached to their bodies.
  • The humpback is the official marine mammal for the state of Hawaii.
  • The word for humpback in Hawaiian is kohola. 50 million years ago whales lived on land.
  • A mother whale is as big as 10 Indian elephants.

3-Hour Whale Discovery Cruise, $69

- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Departs Keauhou Bay
- Minimum Age: 8 years old

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