Category: Dive Blog

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. […]

Great dive with Donna today! Water was calm, and clearing up nicely. Though the cave with the shark was stirred by by previous divers.

Finished my last work day for a week and a day, off work until Sept. 10, so had to do a pau hana dive. My camera died (didn’t get fully charged for some reason) with when I found 2 Polygon Pleurobranch’s that I had never seen before. Most of my time I spent trying too […]

Still nice, but surf and wind were rising fast when I got out of the water.

‘Nuff said.

Back to Ulua and greeted by 2 Spotted Eagle;e Rays!

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 […]