Every year, from December until April, Maui's favorite wintertime visitors are in residence. The humpback whales, as many as 10,000 of them, migrate from their summer feeding grounds in Alaska to the warm and sheltered waters of the Hawaiian Islands. 

While here they mate, nurse their newborn calves, and thrill their human counterparts who delight in observing them from one of Maui's many whale watch cruises or from vantage points on the shore.

Once hunted to near-extinction, these magnificent marine mammals are now one of the worldwide conservation movement's major success stories.

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