Crit21
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Just got back today. I have a lot of underwater pics but most are not all that great. Some are awesome. In four 1-to-1 1/2 hour snorkeling trips along the Kona coast, I saw:
- A spotted eagle ray with a 6 foot tail
- Triggers: A school of hundreds of black triggers, two kinds of picasso, pinktail, lei, bridled
- Trumpets and coronets
- A school of blue spine unicorns
- HUGE sailfins
- Several eels: moray, snowflakes, and a white one I haven't identified yet
- Many types of large parrrot fish
- Moorish idols, including several in a tide pool
- Tangs, tangs and more tangs: yellow, achilles, orange shoulder, HUGE nasos, and a number of others I can't identify
- All kinds of box fish, puffers and porcupines, including one giant porcupine 2 feet long and maybe 10-12" wide at the head!
Jacks: bluefin trevally and a few giant trevallys
- Hawkfish and goat fish everywhere on coral heads
- Peacock groupers
- Butterflies: longnose, raccoon, fourspot, ornate (beautiful!), threadfin, saddleback
- Blennies and gobies everywhere, particularly in tide pools
- Barracuda (in the distance)
- Sergeants
- Large turtles everywhere! A few even approached me and got inches from my face.
- Coral formations on top of lava deposits as big as houses that would be 3 feet below the surface and suddenly drop off to 20-50 feet. The corals were pretty much two types, orange peel-type encrusting and thick branching. I never did ask what they were, but here's a link to a great representative pic: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ag7rq/coral2.jpg
I used a few disposable 35mm cams, including two with flash, which seemed to work much better when it came to color and sharpness. I had them all dumped to CD too.
Pics to follow.
- A spotted eagle ray with a 6 foot tail
- Triggers: A school of hundreds of black triggers, two kinds of picasso, pinktail, lei, bridled
- Trumpets and coronets
- A school of blue spine unicorns
- HUGE sailfins
- Several eels: moray, snowflakes, and a white one I haven't identified yet
- Many types of large parrrot fish
- Moorish idols, including several in a tide pool
- Tangs, tangs and more tangs: yellow, achilles, orange shoulder, HUGE nasos, and a number of others I can't identify
- All kinds of box fish, puffers and porcupines, including one giant porcupine 2 feet long and maybe 10-12" wide at the head!
Jacks: bluefin trevally and a few giant trevallys
- Hawkfish and goat fish everywhere on coral heads
- Peacock groupers
- Butterflies: longnose, raccoon, fourspot, ornate (beautiful!), threadfin, saddleback
- Blennies and gobies everywhere, particularly in tide pools
- Barracuda (in the distance)
- Sergeants
- Large turtles everywhere! A few even approached me and got inches from my face.
- Coral formations on top of lava deposits as big as houses that would be 3 feet below the surface and suddenly drop off to 20-50 feet. The corals were pretty much two types, orange peel-type encrusting and thick branching. I never did ask what they were, but here's a link to a great representative pic: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ag7rq/coral2.jpg
I used a few disposable 35mm cams, including two with flash, which seemed to work much better when it came to color and sharpness. I had them all dumped to CD too.
Pics to follow.
