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.
The male "escort" of a cow-calf 3-whale pod does a flukes-up dive. Note the very small slightly droopy dorsal fin of the calf as it rests lightly on the rostrum (the protruding jaw of the skull) just in front of that of its mother.
17 January 2011
17 January 2011
The male "escort" of a cow-calf 3-whale pod does a flukes-up dive. Note the very small slightly droopy dorsal fin of the calf as it rests lightly on the rostrum (the protruding jaw of the skull) just in front of that of its mother.
17 January 2011
17 January 2011
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