far as seeing any of the more interesting behaviors, it was pretty much a quiet day. The whales just swam, dove and blew. There was nothing really extrodinary today.Jan. 8th Data collection continuesToday is our first journey to Olawahu, or the hill. This location is a little closer to the hotel but actually farther from the shore. This hill is inland from the coastal high way by about a a mile. Each team has to hike up the hill it’s self carrying the equipment since cars are not allowed. The supposed reason is that the hill is home to an old Hawaiian temple and people are usually not suppose to be up there. The only thing on the hill that I actually saw was rather modern and new cement well.The higher elevation of this place provides a great view of the ocean. The only problem is that the distance from the ocean its self makes finding pods very difficult with the naked eye, and since binoculars provide such a narrow field of view, the chances of missing things are pretty high if you are looking in the slightly wrong spot. During our scan of the area to figure out how many pods are around and how many are in each group. Team TG (short for Top Gun, our new official name) spotted about 12 different pods around that area ranging from single whale pods to larger, more active, fighting male pods. One thing I found rather amusing is that once we are done with our scan all the pods we charted seemed to have disappeared. There would be numerous pods in nice and close to the shore that would look very promising. They seem to know when we want to pick one of them, and they just disappear. We have to settle for a pod that is farther out and harder to pick out against the hazy background. Although today turned out to be pretty fruitful. We gathered a good six pages of data, as well as catching a few good breaches right square in my binoculars.Jan. 9th Data collection continues the sequel Back at McGregor today, the weather was...
