JohnQ Posted February 1, 2005 #1 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Just got a call from my sister in law from a whalewatching trip yesterday in Maui, crowing about all the breaching whales. They even had to stop the boat and wait until they thinned out before they could head back. Bummer for me. Does anyone know how long in the season the good whalewatching goes? I think we went the last of Mar/early April and saw several whales but no breaching. I'm getting itchy camera trigger finger!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spleen93 Posted February 1, 2005 #2 Share Posted February 1, 2005 Actually, April is still pretty good for whale watching. It starts getting thin around May and June. Spleen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daWoods Posted February 2, 2005 #3 Share Posted February 2, 2005 Last time we were there, late Feb early March, in 2003, we saw more whales than on any of our other visits. As we were checking out our condo on the Big Island, one breached just a few hundred yards off shore, a great welcome to the islands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukbballfan Posted February 5, 2005 #4 Share Posted February 5, 2005 Last week we saw them all over the place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonv Posted February 10, 2005 #5 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Mid February is the best time and Maui is the best place. The narrow channel by Lahaina is the whale grand central station then. I haven't seen much whale in Big Island in February, not closeby the way in Maui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debtman7 Posted February 10, 2005 #6 Share Posted February 10, 2005 We saw two different pods off of the Napali Coast of Kauai late last April. Pretty late in the season for whale watching but we got lucky I guess. We had several breach within 200 feet of our boat, quite the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired not Expired Posted February 14, 2005 #7 Share Posted February 14, 2005 Since they run the tours for whale watching from Dec 1 to Apr 30, the months of Jan, Feb, and Mar are probably best with Dec and Apr marginal. We saw a lot of them the middle of Jan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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