The Sleeping Monk Seal 8/19

Max and I had a great group of people on the boat today as we headed out for the morning advanced dives off the Sea Fox.  It was wonderful conditions at the LCU for the first dive as we had little current and excellent visibility. Right away we found a frogfish on the bottom and schools of goatfish swimming around the wreck. There were also butterflyfish everywhere with pennant and mittetseed butterflyfish all about the area.  There was a quick siting of a sandbar shark but it quickly left with all the divers about.  Soon it was time to head up and make our way to the second dive.

For the second site we chose Spitting Caves but the current was a bit unusual today as it was going toward the east despite the rising tide. It was still great visibility and wonderful sea life in the area. We quickly found a white tip reef shark and even a Hawaiian turkeyfish hiding in the reef.  There were also turtles all about the area swimming about the reef and getting cleaned but the fish around.  We were even lucky enough to find a Hawaiian monk seal resting in one of the large caves along the site. It was a great day for diving.