Pelagic Season Wrap-Up | 2025
The humpback season has begun which means we just wrapped up our pelagic whale watching season! Whale watching on the Kona Coast is year-round and we love spending time with Kona’s wide variety of marine life. Our team is stoked to reveal that we saw whales on 99% of our pelagic whale watching tours in 2025! Curious about what we saw? Keep reading for our species round-up…
We Encountered 9 Whale Species
Short-finned pilot whales (94 pods!!)
Sperm whales
Blainville’s beaked whales
Cuvier’s beaked whales
Longman’s beaked whales (one of the rarest whales in the world)
Melon headed whales
Pygmy killer whales
Pygmy sperm whales
Humpback whales (20 unique individuals during the pelagic season)
And 5 Types Of Dolphins
Hawaiian spinner dolphins (80 pods!)
Pantropical spotted dolphins
Bottlenose dolphins
Rough-toothed dolphins
Fraser’s dolphins
We Saw 10 Different Shark & Ray Species
Oceanic white tip sharks (24 sightings!)
Tiger sharks
Scalloped hammerhead sharks
Smooth hammerhead sharks
Mako shark
Oceanic Black tip shark
Whale sharks
Pelagic manta
Reef manta ray
Other Species Included…
Hawaiian monk seals
Green sea turtles
Hawksbill sea turtles
So many birds!
Mahalo to all of our wonderful guests who joined us on our pelagic whale watching tours in 2025. We hope to see you this winter for the humpback season!
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