What kinda of whales this time of year.

[wyatt]

Yesterday evening while sitting at Seaview Ocean park. We saw smaller type of whales breaching and spouting. What a nice surprise.

Aloha
Wyatt

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[missydog1]

Possible they were short-finned pilot whales, which are members of the dolphin species.

[Carey]

There are a number of toothed whales (sub order: odontocetes - the one that dolphins, orcas & pilot w) and a few baleen species ( sub order: mysticetes - the most famous is the winter season humpback) There have been some recent sitings of pilots, beaked and psuedo-orcas that I have heard of recently.

a good resource for info (slightly scientific):
http://www.cascadiaresearch.org/hawaii/hawaii.htm

Captain Dans has some nice video of a few species:
http://www.ilovewhales.com/