Category: Dive Blog

This covers 4 dives: Halloween night dive, Keawakapu to the St Anthony, Polo beach, and Ulua night dive. For the Halloween night dive, I was experimenting with a wide angle lens and it does not work well with this housing. I couldn’t get really clear focus with it at all, but some of the shots […]

Pictures are from today, video is from last weekend. On the way back from the St Anthony last weekend, I found this tiny yet very lively antler coral head in the middle of the halimeda grass. Of course I did not have my camera, as it was the third dive of the day and the […]

Enjoy the photos.

Keeping this brief due to an injury to my right arm and hand making it painful to type with my right hand. Enjoy the photos.

New things I haven’t seen or gotten a picture of before: Warty Sea Cucumber, Sphinx Phyllidia, Crowned Toby, and Reticulated Brittle Star.

I needed to get wet, so without checking on conditions, got a tank and jumped in at Ulua beach. And boy was the water murky! I did recall that some waves had come through, stirring things up. I still had a great dive, and thankfully brought my macros lens because wide angle was ugly. 🙂

It may seem like I missed a couple of weekend days of diving, but I just dove a couple of days without my camera so I could put my new scooter through its paces. I wanted to check continuous runtime at the various speeds, so I didn’t want to stop and take pictures, so I […]

Had a great dive yesterday by myself at Ulua. Highlight was an octopus that really wanted to pose for me, so there is an octopus series separate from the rest. We’ll start with that: The rest of the pictures from that dive: And today’s Lana’i dives:

My recent dive buddy, Daniel, described this place called “Treasure Chest” in about 40 feet of water off of Keawakapu Beach south end, due west. I think I was there once in my past life as a scuba instructor, but it was nice to find it again if it is the same place, or nice […]

Just a couple of nice long relaxing dives. First with Lynette, and of course I forgot my camera. It was nice not having anything to do but enjoy the scenery, though.

I set out on this dive saying, “I will only shoot macro today!” And then proceeded to not take a single macro photo; It was all wide angle. I guess that’s what happens when sharks keep swimming by. But after each wide angle shot, I would get ready for macro again (move lenses, lights, etc) […]

4 different species of Nudibranch today. But most importantly I set out to find the elusive endemic Hawaiian Pom-Pom Crab in a spot where I used to see them 20 years ago… and I found one. 🙂 Also called the Boxer Crab, this little crab (max 13 mm or ½”) will punch at you with […]

Switching it up, using my Wide Angle Dome lens today, but still ended up shooting mostly smaller subjects.

I am loving my new macro photo setup. Finally getting the detail I want on the smaller critters. And when a huge school of Heller’s Barracuda swim by, I can quickly move the macro lens to the side and shoot wide angle.

A Reef’s End dusk, drift dive at Molokini yesterday, and 2 shore dives today, first at Makena Landing, second to the St. Anthony from Mokapu Beach. Still trying to focus on macro subjects (pun intended), but nice having the flexibility to easily remove the macro lens; thanks to (finally) a good lens attachment design by […]

Yesterday I did a scooter dive and went out too a small patch of reef in about 60 ft (18 m) of water, way beyond the edge of the main reef.

So today was very exciting! On the first scooter dive from Oneuli Beach with Daniel Moth, I spotted a nudibranch I had never seen before, a quite pretty one (photos below of course). Daniel had never seen it either, and also got a couple of pictures. Once home, I tried to ID it, but it […]

A nice relaxing day on the Maui Diamond II. And some new species sightings for me: Candy Cane Shrimp, Snow-goddess Nudibranch, Keferstein’s Sea Cucumber, and a small school of Bandfin Cardinalfish.