In this picture, you can see the water splashing off the flipper, as the whale lifts it out of the water again.
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Part of the head, and midsection of a humpback.
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Another fluke shot. The pattern on each humpback's fluke is different.
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If these pictures were better, you could use them as a sort of fingerprint of the individual whale.
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On to the spinner dolphins.
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That's right, they're swimming right under the boat.
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In fact, there are dozens swimming right under the boat.
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These dolphins can travel in pods of hundreds.
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They are called "spinner dolphins" because, in the wild, they will jump and spin.
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They go a lot higher than this, but are hard to catch in the action...
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Did I mention that there were are lot of them?
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Here's one "waving" at us, just like the humpback earlier.
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One last shot of these gorgeous creatures.
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Time to relax, with a beer at the Kona Brewing Company.
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And it's off to Mauna Kea. See the grown-over cinder cones?
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Hmmmmm......invisible cows?
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