Maui

Our next island was Maui. We had an overnight in the port of Lahaina. So I had two days on Maui. The first day, the San Francisco gang went whale watching with our on board naturalist, Dirk. Whale watching is different in Hawaii than it is in Alaska. Dirk said that in Hawaii humpback whales don’t feed, they just have their babies and nurse them until they are big enough to make the trip to Alaska. Then in Alaska, they eat. So in Hawaii, since they aren’t hunting, they play a lot and they breach a lot which is when they jump out of the water. I got some pictures of a baby humpback breaching, but you’ll have to wait for those.

We were so lucky on this trip. There were whales everywhere and one of them even swam right under our boat. It was so cool. There were only five of us crew in the boat. It was the San Francisco gang and Damian (our cruise director with his feet on the cooler) and his girlfriend. So we had the whole boat to ourselves. I can’t wait to see my pictures when they come back.

Katie