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2007 Whale Photos - 1/23/07
Photos from the Hula Kai Whale Watch - 1/23/07
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01/23/07 (Tuesday)
Aloha, what a great day for whale watching! Picture perfect blue skies and ocean, but the real stars today were the humpback whales (megaptera novaeangliae). We had barely arrived on the “Lek” When before we knew it we were surrounded by whales. While people were reacting to a 7 individual “heat run” on the port side, cheers went up when out of nowhere 2 whales breached in tandem like twin (s.r.b.'s) separating from the main engine of the space shuttle craft into high earth orbit. As if that wasn't enough we had 4 spyhops, 13 more breaches, and most of them were fairly close to the boat. That alone would have been a full day's experience, but then we saw 4 lunges, and way too many tail-lobs to count. The total whale count was 15. Needless to say everyone was totally stoked on the way home. And then we saw what I thought was the highlight of the day, we encountered a mother and a brand new baby calf. How did we know that the calf was a newborn? Funny you should ask because that's the whale question of the day. The way you can tell if the calf is a newborn is by the color, and the way it swims next to it's mother. Usually a newborn is very light gray in color and swims so close to mom that it gets pulled along in it's mother's slipstream. This is called “eschalon” swimming. Sometimes it has difficulties in coordinating swimming and breathing, so mom nudges it along with her massive head. Which by the way is 1/3 of her body length, she does this so the calf doesn't have to work so hard to keep up with her. And that ends another whale watch log. I'm looking forward to seeing some of you on our next trip, which by the way is tomorrow. Don't delay seats are going fast for the hottest ticket on the best boat on the Kona Coast! See you real soon – Aloha! - Jonathan | email Jonathan |
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