Back to Pawai Bay today with Kona Honu Divers. I've been growing more and more fond of diving on this stretch of coastline. This is partly because, as a fish refuge, it is a no-take zone, and therefore, there are lots of fish there. And they were out today.
Conditions were excellent, smooth, glassy surface, great visibility, 82 degrees. Here are some of the fish we saw. This includes a kind of crdab neither Sandy nor I had ever seen. If you know what this is, post a comment!
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| Mystery Crab |
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| Brittle Star |
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| Female Psychedelic Wrasse |
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Guard Crab |
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| Octopus |
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| Orange Spine Unicorn |
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| Cup Corals |
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| Hebrew Cone |
After a great, fishy dive at Pawai Bay we headed north to Eel Cove (Fish Bowl). This is the site of maybe my favorite ever dive a couple years ago with Tara Brooks. Mooring is on a shallow shelf that drops off sharply to some rubbly sloping sand, transitioning to the north into a great field of huge boulders full of fish, including Sergent Major and Raccoon Butterflies. There are some other famous inhabitwntes of this cove: Gooseberry, the Cowfish and the magnificent Viper Eel that lives in the pinnacle near the mooring and is mayber ther most photographed viper eel in history. And it had more pics taken today. Sadly, we didn't see Goosberry. Here's what we did see, including an interestingly large number of white margin nudis.
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| Viper eel |
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| Viper Eel |
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| White Margin Nudis |
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| White Mouth Eel |
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| Pyramid Butterfly |
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| Pustulose nudi |
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| Dragon Wrasse |
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| Cleaner Wrasse |
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| Blackside Hawkfish |
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