Friday, March 2 2012, 11:30am HST at Ma'alaea Harbor, Captain Jay motors in to pick us up.
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The boat is a 60 foot Catamaran with twin Caterpillar engines
Jay has been a skipper for the Pacific Whale Foundation for nearly 25 years and a great new friend of ours!
First sightings
Thar she blows!
A mom and her calf
The next 3 pictures are explained below:
A 40,000 pound mother Humpback breaches. The second picture is a zoomed in version of the the first. The 3rd is the amazing splash made as she landed back in the water.
Just what the skipper ordered!
A whale's tail with Molikini in the distance. Molikini is a crescent-shaped, partially submerged volcanic crater off the south shore of Maui & popular destination for SCUBA and snorkelers
This 4,000 pound newborn (2 to 4 weeks old) stuck around our boat with it's mom
and did multiple breaches for nearly an hour.
(Zoomed in version of picture above it)
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For more about the whales and whale watch information from a previous post, click here:
