Living The Dream

It was another beautiful day on the water this afternoon! We had a pretty full boat as we headed out to our shallow reef sites to find some turtles. And turtles we did find! The first site we went to was Koko Craters. We dropped down 38 feet into the crater. We found some sea turtles sleeping, as usual, under the ledges. We also found a few large moray eels! We saw both small and large marine animals today as we found turtles and eels but also a few tiny nudibranchs! We swam around with lots of small reef fish such as moorish idols, Sargent majors, butterfly fish, and trumpet fish to name a few. We also saw a pretty big file fish! After 44 minutes of swimming with the fishes we headed back up to the boat to motor over to our second dive site.

 

The second dive site we went to was called Turtle Canyons. Our maximum depth on this dive was 33 feet. Turtle canyons is rolling hills of reef so we spent the dive floating just above the reef looking at the coral and fish and morays. We were able to find a scorpion fish today which looks oddly identical to a rock, except for the eyes and mouth! After a relaxing 42 minute dive we ascended back up to the surface to be greeted once again by gravity. I am reminded everyday how awsome my job is. I get to go scuba diving with sea turtles and soak up the Hawaii sun on a boat. I most certainly am living the dream and all my divers were today too!

 

 

 

Crew: captain Kendal, instructor Sarah, instructor Mary, instructor Matt, crew Ashley

conditions: water temperature 75 degrees Fahrenheit, visibility 70+ feet