18 participants
11 seabird species
2 marine mammal sp.
2+ fish sp.
Eighteen participants from across the country experienced a unique oceanic odyssey of the deep waters along the North and South Kona coast. Although Pterodroma petrels regularly pass through the Hawaiian Islands as migrants, encountering double-digit counts on an eight-hour pelagic adventure are very special occasions (several made close approaches to the boat).
Black Noddy (7)
Sooty Tern (8)
White-tailed Tropicbird (11; courtship flights and vocalizations)
Red-tailed Tropicbird (1)
Mottled Petrel (2)
Hawaiian Petrel (1)
Black-winged Petrel (6)
Cookilaria petrel (3)
Pterodroma sp. (1)
Wedge-tailed Shearwater (169)
Sooty Shearwater (2)
Procellariid sp. (5)
Brown Booby (2; adults)
Red-footed Booby 2; juvenile and subadult)
Short-finned Pilot Whales
Spinner Dolphins
Oceanic White-tipped Shark (Mano)
Flying Fish (Malolo)