The day finally arrived and we met with the others on the beach for a short safety briefing at 9.45am. Just before 10 the big catamaran Trilogy IV glided in from behind the surf and beached itself in the sand. A set of steps dropped down and we all climbed aboard.
The kids all sat on the trampolines and the adults on the seats provided. Once we had turned around a more official, though humorous, introduction was made by Captain Casey of himself and the fantastic crew, Caleb and Amy, then it was off to spot our target species, Humpback whales.
It wasn’t long before we spotted the first, a two week old calf. He breached 4-5 times as we watched and his mother, who glided by but never came to the surface, was ever present. We saw small satellite groups of males jump and dive and lie on their side splashing the water with their fins. All this followed by vigorous ooohs and aaaaaghs from all on board.
Impossible to get photos with a little ‘point & shoot’ so you’ll just have to take our word for it!!
Amy was our resident ‘whale expert’ and Caleb had the kids spellbound with stories of whales, pig hunting and being speared through the chest by his best mate while spear fishing. They were all very informative and very friendly.
We think in the two hour trip we saw up to 20 whales which was just fantastic and well worth doing. It is hard not to get a little emotional being so close to such huge and majestic creatures in their natural environment. We all felt quite privileged to have been able to do this, in what is such a magical place on earth!
We walked along the beach to the “Hula Grill” for lunch and then headed back to the condo where we all fell asleep! I’m not sure if it was the 2 hours on the open sea, the cocktail of seasick medication, the huge midday lunch we consumed or the last 10 days of constant activity but we were shattered!
We ate out last night at the Aloha Mixed Plate in Lahaina and then it was home to bed. We are off snorkelling again today. Looks like another clear warm day here in paradise!
Jakob gets the best seat on the boat!
The Captain
An Adult weighs about 40 tonne - makes a decent splash!
The little baby
Tail shot!
Check out this amazing shot I got!!!!!
Just another sunset from the balcony....
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