Author: Jon

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 […]

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.