Author: Jon

It was a day for fantastic conditions. First dive at Kealia Pond, I joined a local nudibranch expert and her wife and it was amazing. They have a great eye for the tiniest sea slugs, many of which were too small for me to even try to take a picture. I am including some that […]

Great dives with lots of subjects, large, medium and small. Even some extra medium.

Well, we did 2 dives at Lana’i but was having lens issues in the 1st dive so I only have pictures from the 2nd. There first dive was relatively uneventful until the end of the dive when about 200 Spinner Dolphins went swimming by. Tried to video them, but they were far off and the […]

Ornate Octopus foraging at half speed

Let the ocean wash the blues away… ironic, I know.

Ulua: Molokini: Nahuna Pt:

First dive at Kealia Pond with Donna. My mission was to find a sea horse, but that failed. We did, however get encircled by a school of Bluefin Trevally which was very cool. Second dive was at Ulua. My mission was to find the Elegant Sap-sucking Slug again to get better pictures. That was a […]

Found the deep reef in 110 feet today that I had been meaning to get to. There was a nice spot with bigger than normal fish populations for Maui these days. It was refreshing. As it was an exploratory dive, I wanted to travel light since as I had two scooters; so I only took […]

And all she wanted was an octopus, and she got it.

I was once told that diving in the Philippines would ruin diving in Hawaii. Well, I wholeheartedly disagree! Last night’s dive at Black Rock off Ka’anapali was absolutely spectacular. We, Donna and I, saw several species I had not seen/photographed before, and there was just life everywhere. Plus we got visited repeatedly by a teenage […]

Gotta love a night dive! New critters spotted tonight: Common Box Crab, Hairy Elbow Crab (won’t see it in the picture, too camouflaged, so I outlined it in a duplicate photo, and provided a video of it moving in case you still don’t believe there was a crab in that picture), and Shortjaw Bonefish (could […]

And the first time I’ve seen a turtle with tumors in a long time.

I did a couple more dives at Ulua yesterday. First one with Daniel and Donna, 2nd just me.

It is my on call weekend, which means I have to be close to home and computer until 2:00pm. So at 2:01pm, I loaded my gear, went to get a tank and was in the water by 3:00. It will be the same tomorrow. Good things about afternoon dives: easy parking and no other divers. […]