Humpback Whales of Maui - # - Footprints in Paradise: Photos of Maui & the Hawaiian Islands

Photos in this gallery are grouped by the different types of whale behavior. All of the images are from whale-watching cruises with the Pacific Whale Foundation that sailed out of Ma'alaea Harbor on the Island of Maui. Each year I go on about 40 cruises on the waters of Ma'alaea Bay and the Kealaikahiki Channel between Maui and the Island of Kaho'olawe.

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Lots of blows, head lunges, and fluke-slaps going on amongst the members of this VERY surface-active competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater.

28 February 2013

One member of a surface-active competition pod slams its head down onto that of another combatant in a very active competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater.

28 February 2013

A surface-active competition pod swims past, oblivious to my boat. Molokini Crater is visible on the hazy horizon.

28 February 2013

The action heats up in a surface-active competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater.

28 February 2013

Some of the tired but very persistent members of a competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater.

28 February 2013

Two males in a competition pad literally go head-to-head as they jockey for a position closest to the lone female in the pod, so hoping to be in a position to mate with her, should she prove to be receptive.
25 January 2013

A particularly rowdy competition pod, 17 January 2011, Ma'alaea Bay, Maui.

The action heats up in a surface-active competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater (visible on the horizon).

28 February 2013

Lots of blows, head lunges, and fluke-slaps going on amongst the members of this VERY surface-active competition pod offshore from Molokini Crater.

28 February 2013

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