Archive for month: November, 2016

The water was glassy and clear this Monday morning.  A beautiful day for a dive, always nice with winter here and we get these conditions.  The first thing we saw as we dropped down on LCU was a very pregnant white tip reef shark.  She really wanted nothing to do with us but she didn’t want to move much from where she was laying.  We got a couple shots of her up and moving but she made it clear that laying down was what she wanted.  The turtles were very active at LCU also.  Swimming around and under the wreck and also one sleeping with his head resting in one of the props down there.  Kind of ironic that of all places was the choice to sleep.  Also got to see some eels, an octopus and two very curious eagle rays.  This was a great dive!

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Our Surface Interval was fantastic also.  It really was like a lake out there….the waters still and just up ahead we see it.  The spout of a WHALE!  Not one but two.  Then the backs as the swam and dove, then a spout again.  This went on for quite awhile, we counted 4 whales in the pod.  As we were getting ready to leave we got to see the big tail fin as the whales prepared for their dive too!

Everyone super excited at this point could not wait for the next dive.  Fantasy Reef was what we picked.  We just needed more of everything.  No disappointment on the dive today.  Sharks, Eels, Turtles, Peacock Wrasse, Octopus x3, more turtles, a school of moorish idols, nudibranch, and yes….More Turtles.  This dive had it all.

Peacock Wrasse

Favorite Fantasy Reef Turtle,,,He has an odd tail.

Imperial Nudibranchs

Hiding Yellow Margin Moray Eel

Goofy Fish!!

Awesome Divers:  Rick, Fabian and Tim

Amazing Dive Staff:  Capt. Dan, Dive Instructors Mary and Dave, Crew of Marissa!

Dive Sites:  LCU max depth 95′, viz 100++, Wreck Dive

Fantasy Reef, max depth 55′, viz 100, Drift

Today was a great day out on the Seafox. The conditions were great both above and below the water. We had an excited group of divers on the boat as we headed out to our first dive site. The first dive we did this morning was the Corsair. The water was crystal clear as we descended down to 107 feet where the plane sits in the sand. As we made our way down to the wreck we noticed two huge octopi sitting on the wing! They slowly hid themselves under the wing as we approached them but they were massive! We found Bertha, the resident yellow margin moray, underneath the wing as well. We also found a leaf scorpion fish on the wreck. Lots of great stuff today. As we were headed back to the line at the end of the dive I turned around to take one last look at the octopi and they were back out on top of the wing slowly making there way towards each other. The moment we had all been waiting for. The male octopus slowly put his tentacle into her mantle. It was happening, octopus sex. What an epic dive. We headed back up to the surface to give them a bit of privacy to do their thing. The second dive site we went to today was Spitting Caves. There were not any animals procreating but it was still a great dive. We saw two white tip reef sharks, quite a few moray eels, a couple devil scorpion fish and tons of reef fish swimming around. It was a relaxing drift along the wall with awesome visibility. Overall a great morning of diving and some great dive buddies. Until next time! Aloha.