Author: Jon

Hung out with an octopus for quite a while when it was hunting. Love it!

2 dives today; 1st dive with Lynette at Kahekili, aka Airport, Beach. 2nd by myself at Ulua. 2 new to me species today: the Hawaiian Longfin Anthias (got photo, not great) and the Blue Swallowtail Slug (did not get picture as I did not have macro lens on that dive).

I went out looking for a Snow-godess Nudibranch because I wanted to try my new light on it, and I found it and got a decent shot. 🙂

Today I was trying out a new light with snoot for macro. I like the new light, but need to work on using the snoot more as it adds an extra complication in setting up a shot.

South swell was still up today, but I decided to brave Ulua because I just find cooler critters there. Visibility on the inside was 5-15 feet, but got up to about 30 to 40 feet towards the end of the outer reef. There was still a lot of surge, however, even in 50 feet of […]

South swell stirred things up on my side of the island, so I went to the west side and dove Kahekili Beach, aka Airport Beach (there’s no airport there anymore). Conditions were good, but there was not a whole lot to see/photograph. However if you were concerned, as I was, about the low numbers of […]

Great day at Molokini with Island Style Diving. The owners, Javier and Christina, were at the helm today and they did a great job. Christina led the group I was in and she is great and always finds the cool stuff. The Naso Tangs seemed to be in some mating battles:

Ulua never disappoints. 2 Species I have not seen before today: Randall’s Puffer and Cloudy Goby. Both are said to be uncommon to be seen at scuba depths. So lucky me. 🙂 I also tried an experiment using only natural light, and setting white balance in camera. But I have to remind myself, as I […]

It was very surgy and low visibility today, so not may pictures.

Gotta love Ulua at sunset for macro

After a morning dive in which I took no pictures as I let my dive buddy, Lynette, use an essential piece of my camera housing as she had forgot hers. So to make up for it, I did a 2nd dive solo and broke my single tank time record: 1 hour & 43 minutes on […]

Went on a sea horse hunt, but came up empty. Found some other nice critters though.

Out with Island Style Diving of their “Advanced” diving day, but it wasn’t really “advanced.” Fun anyway and the crew is always great.

I joined my friend Jenna and her twin 11 year old daughters and her father on Maui Pacific Divers and took photos for them. I am only going to post the marine life pictures here as I will leave it to Jenna to decide which portraits they want to make public. Anyway, it was a […]