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Breaching Humpback whale off Princeville
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Ah, Beauty! Ah,
Nature... Click on images for a
bigger view
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Sea
turtles are
swimming just Point |
often
seen
off Kaweonui |
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Albatross
mating in
front of the Cottage |
Baby
Albatross, here about 4 months old, growing up before our eyes
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Albatross
build
Kaweonui Point |
their nests on
in November |
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Nene
geese are making
a comeback on Kauai |
Whale
fluke (as the tail is called) sighted off Anini reef |
| ”What a stay! Hard to describe the 55
Humpback breaches or 23 tail slaps in a row, but we will try and
convince our friends this place is real!”
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David and Tracy,
Bellevue, WA |
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Exotica
surrounds The House on Kaweonui Point.
Come and live with nature Hawaiian Style.
Humpback Whales travel south for 3,100 miles each year from
November to May to mate and calve in warm Hawaiian waters. These
majestic giants, often 52 ft long and 100,000 pounds, breach,
spout, spy-hop (raise up out of the water to eye level to look
around) and slap tails in front of The House.
“Oh, did you
arrange the pod of whales we saw from your deck on our first day
or was that “just another day in Paradise?”
Rick and Jane,
St.Paul, MN
Kilauea National Wildlife Refuge, hosts 5 species of
sea birds including the Great Frigate. Recently the endangered
Nene (Hawaiian goose), Hawaii’s State bird, has joined the
Refuge’s bird crowd. Only 50 Nene existed in the mid-‘40s.
Now they are thriving.
“ The surf sound and immense blue waves
occasionally pulled us from watching tropical seabirds soar and
swooped so near the house we thought we could touch them.”
Vaninni family, Massa Marittima, Italy
”Looking up
to see a flock of geese overhead, in Hawaii no less, was
something else entirely!”
Will, Boulder, CO
Laysan Albatross arrive when nesting and mating
season begins in November (often in the front yard of The
House), and chicks depart by September. Mating courtship rituals
can last for two years, but once mated it’s for life! These
gorgeous giant birds (wingspans of 7 feet) appear clumsy on land
but in the air their graceful gliding is wondrous. “Our stay was made even more exotic and
romantic by the sounds and sights of dancing, mating Albatross a
few feet from the front door.”
Ali and David, New York, NY
Green Sea Turtles called Honu ‘Ea or ‘Ea by the
Hawaiians, an endangered specie, were being threatened to
extinction by loss of nesting habitat, predation and poaching
(their shells make attractive jewelry sold illegally worldwide
as tortoise shell).
“ Imagine my surprise when at sunset I
saw at least 25 endangered sea turtles feeding just off the reef
right in front of The House. Fascinating, wonderful stuff."
Carlos, San Salvador, El Salvador
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