One of the greatest nature shows on Earth comes to Maui each winter, when thousands of giant humpback whales congregate in the shallow, warm water channels near Maui. Here’s how to go whale w…
One of the greatest nature shows on Earth comes to Maui each winter. Thousands of giant humpback whales –calledin native Hawaiian — congregate in the shallow, warm water channels between Maui, Molokai, Kaho’lawe and Lanai after migrating thousands of miles from food-rich waters off Alaska and other regions of the north Pacific. Here in Hawaii, they breed, give birth and nurse calves in an oceanic ritual that’s as old as time.
It was early December — generally considered the start of Maui’s “whale season” — and I was bobbing about in the gentle surf of Polo Beach, which fronts Wailea’s Fairmont Kea Lani resort, where I had sequestered for a few days in an ocean-facing Kilohana suite. PacWhale EcoAdventures in Lahaina and Ma’alaea offers a wide variety of boat tours that support the nonprofit Pacific Whale Foundation, a research, education and conservation enterprise. My favorite tour is a two-hour morning tour with Pacific Whale Foundation’s certified marine naturalists out of Lahaina Harbor. In addition to gaining a better understanding about these giants of the sea, you get to see how researchers gather data. Continental breakfast is included.
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