Author: Jon

Another Lined Butterflyfish! But this one was more cooperative.

Another day of incredible visibility off the shore. Makes wide angle photography so much easier. I include the Lined Butterflyfish shot not because it is a good shot (it isn’t) but because it is the first time I have seen one in Hawaii. There only other time was in Fiji ~ 23 years ago. They […]

Went to Mala Ramp in Lahaina Town today. It was an epic day with perfect visibility and more turtles than I have ever seen on one dive. I was joined by my Friend Kim, so lots of portraits. Also throwing in a couple from yesterday’s dive:

With a big south swell, all of the shoreline dive sites are brown, murky water with risky entrance and exit due to big waves. So taking a boat to Molokini was the only diving game in town this weekend, so I availed myself both days. Saturday: Sunday:

To my pleasant surprise, I woke up this morning to fair weather. I was expecting my boat trip with Island Style Diving to be cancelled due to the storm we had been hearing about. Fortunately it never materialized. They did however change destination to Molokini from the intended Carthaginian due to high risk of lousy […]

Another day of awesome conditions at Makena Landing. Some good critter finds, and some good luck shooting smaller critters with a wide angle lens.

Near perfect conditions today. 2 relaxing dives. And broke my personal record for longest dive on a single tank: 100 minutes.

Dive Maui in Lahaina just started operating this week, only going out Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I decided it was my patriotic duty to take the day off work (a terrible hardship for me), buy a seat on Dive Maui’s excellent rigid-hull inflatable dive boat, and labor to do a couple of dives. What I […]

It’s been a couple years since I dove here, so just did some exploring. Mix of macro and normal shots.

Ok, so I think I finally found my extreme close-up lens and settings. Finally getting the kind of results I want on the smaller critters. Had to take the lens off for the Frogfish; he wouldn’t let me get close enough to get a macro eye shot. 🙂 I also saw a Monk Seal on […]

A couple of interesting moments on today’s dive: a huge school of Ringtail Surgeonfish descended on the St Anthony, circled it once, and left, and then on the way back to shore I find a huge Triton’s Trumpet shell that had a Barred Moray Eel, a couple of Coral Banded Shrimps, and a Jeweled Anemone […]

As Murphy dictates, bring a wide-angle lens and only find small subjects. Oh well, have cropping tool and not afraid to use it.

In diving, unlike in life, it is good to get hung up on the little things. Another Ulua Sunset dive, well pre-sunset really.

It’s the goto nowadays and is always fruitful for cool critters. Saw a nudibranch I have yet to identify. Maybe another first sighting in Hawaii! I’ll update this post when I find out. For now, it’s “? Nudibranch”.

Beautiful conditions today. Makes finding the smaller reefs much easier!

Boat dives today. “Holo Holo” technically means “let’s get together and take a stroll,” but is used more like “let’s get together and see where life takes us.” In this case, “where life takes us” is a dive site anywhere other than Molokini Crater. Today, life took us to Tank & Landing Craft, off Maluaka […]

Dove Black Rock today in Ka’anapali. Which meant driving past the remains of Lahaina Town. It was my first time on that side of the island since the fire. It’s surreal. Well, I wish it were, it is painfully all too real. The first dive was a cleanup dive, so no camera. Second dive I […]