One Awesome Morning with World-Class Conditions at Skimmin’s Reef & Sea Cave – 3.7.2014

Weather Conditions: Mild SE swell with mild SE Kona wind

Dive Sites: Skimmin’s Reef & Sea Cave

Dive Conditions: 120’+ Visibility, Mild N current

Marine Life Observed: Green Sea Turtles, Blue Dragon Nudibrach, White-mouth Morray Eels, White-Tip Reef Sharks, Giant Hairy-legged Hermit Crabs, Hawaiian Octopus

We were graced with pristine conditions this morning and decided to head out around Port Lock Point (China Wall) to Skimmin’s Reef just off of Sandy Beach in southeast Oahu. Total of total of 14 divers spent 50 excellent minutes exploring the ledge, swim-through’s, and top reef of the Skimmin’s Reef system. After nearly being ran over by a green sea turtle hiding in a swim-through we found a Hawaiian Octopus, some more sea turtles and countless varieties of reef fishes hanging out around the ledge.

After surfacing we had a quick surface interval with some refreshments and snacks with Capt. Joe on the Sea Fox before heading back down again into one of our favorite dive sites, Sea Cave. Inside the cavern we discovered some White Tip Reef Sharks tucked away just inside the entrance near the western wall. After Spending about 25 minutes exploring the cavern of the ancient lava tube the group headed out the same way we came in and drifted east along the wall where we encountered a few green sea turtles, a school of Butterfly fish chowing down on some Hawaiian Sargent Major eggs and an abundance of hard corals thriving on the sea wall.