I’ll be diving here a lot… parking is generally easy, entrance is easy, the dive bench by the shower post is a nice touch as well. Plus it is a nice reef that bottoms out at about 40 feet.
Used to be a lot of turtles on the outer reef, but I have not seen any out there on my recent visits. Only a couple on the inner reef. I used to dive this reef full time when I taught scuba at the dive kiosk at the Marriot Renaissance. I can’t tell yet if the reef has really changed or my memory of it is not great. I did used to mainly dive it from the Mokapu Beach side rather than the Ulua beach side which is more amenable to public access.
Anyway. here’s a few pictures from that dive. Harelquin shrimp were the highlight, but I have not been able to get a great shot yet with my Micro 3.0 set up. Working on it. I know where they live now.
For the record, these pictures were taken with the SeaLife Micro 3.0 camera with the Sea Dragon 2500F light, perhaps supplemented with a Sola 2000 S/F hand light. On this dive I used either the super macro lens (4″-6″), the closeup lens (6″-24″), or the built-in lens (15″-inf.).