One of our favorite things about Hawaii is the snorkeling. It's incredible. We tried to take a Boat ride out to Molokini for snorkeling. It was too windy, but they don't tell you that before you get on the boat. They wait until your under way to tell you they can't make it, but they have some other places they're going to take you. The other places happened to be just off shore from the road about 5 miles from our condo. I was not happy. But I was in Hawaii and not at work. So, I was happy again. The water here is about 20 ft deep according to the crew. It looked about 50! This is Chase, he swam down a few feet so I could take the picture.
As the water was so deep, you couldn't get very close to the fish, so I didn't take many pictures. I saw two sea turtles swim by and got this video of one of them.
So when I get back to better (and a heck of a lot cheaper) snorkeling, I snap a picture of this guy. What a great picture! I've taken a lot of underwater shots before, but I don't think I've seen this fish before. It's called a trunkfish.
From the same shallow (cheap) water, a needlefish.
This is a unicorn fish. It swam right up to my mask. I believe he thought I was going to feed him. When I didn't, he didn't get quite that close anymore. But he did get within arms length several times.
And finally, this is a Moorish Idol. He has such a long banner, I had to check my dive chart to make sure he wasn't a Pennant Butterflyfish. And this sadly is one of my last pictures I got to take, my underwater camera didn't live up to it's name and crapped out on me not long after this shot. I was elated my pictures came out as well as they did.
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