Maui Marine Life Dolphins Dolphins are part of the same family as porpoises and whales, all called cetaceans. The cetacean family includes the world’s largest and most diverse group of living animals. Dolphins are mammals that nurse their young. There are more...
Humpback whales migrate to feed and breed. They migrate to warm equator waters in the winter and cooler polar waters in the summer. The migration pattern followed by humpback whales is as follows: Winter is spent in tropical waters, where the whales mate and calve....
Humpback whales are such a big part of Maui culture and have been for thousands of years. The humpback whales are throughout native Hawaiian culture in many different ways. Native Hawaiians have a powerful spiritual connection to all forms of life. According to their...
The first humpback whale of the season has been spotted off Kauai.Crew aboard a boat with a Kauai Charter saw the whale surface about a mile off the west side of the island. They snapped a photo of the whale before it slipped back underwater. The National Oceanic and...
Maui Whale watching season is fast approaching. Some seasons we actually begin to see a few whales arriving as early as late October. The height of Maui whale watching tends to occur between the months of December and May. When the season is in full swing we offer...
Maui’s humpbacks remain quite mysterious, but here are a few things that we do know. The humpback whale is a baleen whale and a rorqual whale that sings amazing songs. It performs complex and cooperative feeding techniques. The humpback has a bulky head with...
