Whale Watching off Maui

Today we boarded a Pacific Whale Foundation vessel for a humpback whale watching tour which I would highly recommend.  This is close to the end of the whale season around Maui, but we were blessed with many sightings of a cute calf and several adult whales.  There are many better pictures available on the internet of these magnificant beasts, but here are some of the highlights from my photo shoot. 

I hope you enjoyed these and like always, photos rarely due justice to seeing something with your own eyes, so again, I recommend taking an opportunity like this if it ever presents itself.  For an encore, we visited the Maui Ocean Center's Aquarium right next door.  Here are few highlights from this decent aquarium.

On the drive back to the resort, we pulled over to take some pictures of all the cool kite surfers and old school wind surfers, not to mention of the beautiful beaches here on Maui.

We decided we deserved some time at the infinity pool for all of our "hard work" today! 

While on our walk to dinner back at the resort, we were treated to another pretty sunset. 

We also saw some sea turtles playing right in front of us.  Even more than with the earlier whale pictures, it was incredibly difficult to get any good pictures of these beautiful animals, so I will leave you with a single image that has THREE seat turtles in it.  Can you see them all?

What a great day full of marine wildlife.  Isn't Mother Nature incredible?!?!