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On Wednesday, Hawaiian Adventures Kona was about 10 miles offshore with 26 guests when Capt. Andrew Aggergaard and crew member Olivia Miller saw a pod of six Risso’s dolphins for the first time.
As exciting as it was to see their first mother, her calf and male escort of the season, Capt. Andrew Aggergaard and naturalist Olivia Miller of Hawaiian Adventures Kona were thrilled to identify the two adults by photographing their flukes and matching them in a catalog of tails through the app Happywhale.
The whale, in about 70 feet of water, initially spotting by one of the 24 guests, was moving north along the shoreline.
“It’s an incredibly rare sighting,” Kona boat captain Andrew Aggergaard said of seeing a humpback whale in Hawaiian waters in July. “It’s really hard to say why this whale is here over the summer.”