Author: Jon

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 […]

Conditions cleaned up today finally and shore diving was excellent! I generally avoid long surface swims, preferring to use my scooters underwater to get where I want to go. But there are some sites I want to do from shore that I don’t know how to find underwater yet, and/or a bit too far to […]

Surge and murky this evening, but enjoyable and nice critter spottings none-the-less.

Just a couple of easy shore dives at Ulua today. It was Green Lionfish central out there! I guess that’s appropriate for St Patty’s day. 🙂

Went out on the Maui Diamond II today. T’was a very nice, relaxing dive day. Had great whale shows, and saw, we believe, a sandbar shark which is very rare in the waters, but we only caught a glimpse so the ID is not positive, and no one got pictures of it. Oh well.

My main mission today was to just go and hang out at the St Anthony and listen to the whales and hope that one (or more) might swim by. They have been so loud and so abundant lately in that area that I figure one day, if I play the odds, I will get lucky. […]

These are becoming my favorite. I always spot some interesting critters.

Catching up with posting. Pictures are from dives over the last few days since returning from the Bahamas: Aloha Reef, Z-Blocks, Keawakapu, Marty’s Reef, and Makena Landing.

It was a sharky day, though I only got pictures of one pair of Whitetip Reef Sharks at Molokini. There was a school of adolescent Grey Reef sharks as well, and another Whitetip at 5 Graves. The 3 shots of the Ember Parrotfish are a series of a sort. I have never seen one bite […]

With continuing rain, southerly winds and waves, shore diving is crappy; The water is brown, big waves, choppy. So getting on a boat to Molokini is the only way I’ve been able to dive the last couple of weeks. Here’s today’s pics, all wide angle lens, even the small stuff.

Another supposed “adventure” dive day today. We did go to one site I had never been to before called “85’s” because of the depth. It is a small outcropping of lava rock off Pu’u O’lai and should be doable with scooters from shore. Conditions were not great there today, as heavy rains have made shoreline […]

After a spell of bad weather and dirty water, the shoreline was dive-able again today.

2-tank Molokini dive today with Island Style Diving. Always fun. Shooting wide angle to prep for Bahamas. 🙂

Playing with a new toy underwater this weekend, so did not take many pictures, but here’s what I got:

Why not start the new year the same way I ended the last year? I can actually think of many reasons not to, but I did it anyway. 🙂 I returned to the same dive plan as yesterday, except today I will only use the AOI wide angle lens only. And today I found the […]

With the recently confirmed Tiger Beach dives in the Bahamas this coming February, I need to make sure I have a decent wide-angle option for an external wet lens. I already own two lenses, but did not have luck with either previously, at least with the Divevolk housing. I have a Divevolk 67mm wide angle […]

I went out with Provider today for the first time (with the latest owners). It was supposed to be an “advanced adventure day,” but due to weather and a couple of divers not being advanced, we did 3 simple dives, 2 inside Molokini Crater, max depths 65 feet, and then a 5 caves north finger […]

As any one who knows me knows, I don’t celebrate Christmas beyond availing myself of the paid time off, which is always appreciated. Thank you Jesus, you mythical love god you! In any case, despite not celebrating Christmas, and despite having been naughty all year long (just ask my wife), I was given incredible gifts […]

For my sweet sixty-n birthday I went out with Maui Pacific Divers for a 3 tank dive with my dear friend Lynette. We dove Aloha Reef, Triple Anchors, and Helldiver. It was an awesome day. And of course there are pictures, though not your typical birthday pictures. You will not see hide nor hair of […]