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2008 Whale Photos - 2/27/08
Photos from the Hula Kai Whale Watch - Wednesday
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02/27/08 (Wednesday)
Aloha and welcome aboard!
Just about every type of activity you could imagine, we saw today. Everywhere you looked we saw Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) engaged in lots of surface activities, and the Lek was alive with diversity this afternoon. We're starting to see more mothers with calves, and cow-calf-escorts on the Lek. That is because the season has reached a point where there is an explosion of babies, and that usually means it won't be long before these whales will be a distant memory for this season. Today's stats were as follows: 25 Humpback Whales, 20 Breaches, 10 Pec-slaps, 10 Tail-lobs, 1 Heat-run (3 Males/ 1 female), 3 Lunges, 3 Cow-Calf-Escorts, 2 Close Encounters (Breaching whales), and 1 Pod of Nai'a (Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins-Stenella longirostris). After deploying the hydro-phone, we heard more Humpback Whales than we could count! Today was truly an exceptional day, and you could have a similar adventure, just pick up the phone and call...we'll be waiting for you...till then, Aloha.
Jonathan Opey
Director, Hawai'i Marine Research Center
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