We had some great sightings this week from our Kona whale watch tours, from adorable mom and calf pairs to a juvenile socializing with a pod of pilot whales!

Humpback and Pilot Whales Socialize Offshore

With plenty of sunshine, humpback songs, surface mantas, and even whale sharks, our crew and guests were left in awe by the wonders of the Kona Coast this week!

Epic Humpback Encounter in Kona Makes Headlines

Our crew and guests had some exciting action off the Kona Coast this week! Breaching babies, hammerhead sharks, dolphins, and more!

2022 was an amazing year on the Big Island, packed with lots of whales & wildlife, exciting trips, rare sightings, volcano eruptions, and more!

As more pregnant humpback whales return to the island waters, more and more new little bundles of blubber are appearing along Kona’s coast!

Hootie the Humpback Whale returns to Hawaii!

Big Island whale-watching tours with Hawaiian Adventures Kona have been fantastic with lots of sightings up and down the coastline.

Kona humpback season has officially begun and we are starting to see more and more humpbacks arrive off the coast.

Against all odds, humpback whale Moon completes migration to Kona

We had some pretty great weather conditions during our trips, making for some awesome encounters in the water with Kona’s mantas!

We kicked off the month of December with morning mantas and Hawaiian spinner dolphins on our 7 AM trip on Dec 1st!

Mauna Loa awakens after 38 years of silence!

Kona Private charters were a favorite this week, as many of our guests chose to celebrate the holidays with their closest family and friends.

The Kona coast provided a host of wildlife encounters from manta rays and pilot whales to Hawaiian spinner dolphins.

The first humpback has arrived in Kona!

Our top 5 restaurant recommendations in Kona!

It was an incredible winter whale season for us here at Hawaiian Adventures, with sightings of at least ten different cetacean species including humpback whales, pilot whales, melon-headed whales, false killer whales, sperm whales, dwarf sperm whales, Blainville’s beaked whale, pantropical spotted dolphins, Hawaiian spinner dolphins and bottlenose dolphins!

Winter whale season is in full swing here in Kona, and what a season it has been! They say a photo is worth a thousand words, so let’s let some pictures do the talking: