

Maui No Ka Oi
By mid February in the midst of the Humpback Whale season I flew from Auckland NZ via Honolulu to Maui to observe the breaches, spy-hops and fluke-flaps off Kihei and Lahaina. Besides that I intended to dive out of Kihei along the tiny croissant-shaped volcanic islet called - 'Molokini'. While we dived there we could listen to the songs of male Humpback Whales far off in the open 'Blue'. How much we all wished that one whale would sneak up on us and gave us a good glimpse of