The underwater world in Maui is pretty breathtaking but there is somewhere a hop, skip, and jump away that can provide all kinds of new, fun sights even for the seasoned hawaiian sealife hunter. The island of Hawaii, or known here as 'the Big Island', has an incredible amount of dive sites, mostly along the Kona coastline. It is the only place in the Hawaiian Islands that has enough sites for a year round live-aboard dive charter to exist. Even though I had been there ten years ago while going to school in Hilo I did not really experience all it had to offer. It was time.
Heidi and I flew over and after a quick breakfast immediately grabbed some tanks and hit the water with my good friend Erica. Beautiful coral right off the beach, caves, and beautiful fish abounded.
But we were on a mission. We were looking for fish and other creatures that are much rarer or not on Maui altogether but could be found here. We eventually went on four dives along the Kona coast including Magic Sands (shore dive), O'Hanaunau (shore dive), Garden Eel Cove (boat dive), and Manta Ray Heaven (boat dive).
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| Leaf Scorpionfish |
We ended up finding some incredible sea life including leaf scorpionfish, reticulated butterflyfish, manta rays, tons of eels, longnose butterflyfish in their brown phase, a flame angelfish and beautiful underwater topography. It is amazing to think that we just scratched the surface of all the diving there is to be done on the big island!
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| Reticulated Butterflyfish |
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| Juvenile Rock Mover Wrasse |
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| Juvenile Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse |
The underwater world in Maui is pretty breathtaking but there is somewhere a hop, skip, and jump away that can provide all kinds of new, fun sights even for the seasoned hawaiian sealife hunter. The island of Hawaii, or known here as 'the Big Island', has an incredible amount of dive sites, mostly along the Kona coastline. It is the only place in the Hawaiian Islands that has enough sites for a year round live-aboard dive charter to exist. Even though I had been there ten years ago while going to school in Hilo I did not really experience all it had to offer. It was time.
Heidi and I flew over and after a quick breakfast immediately grabbed some tanks and hit the water with my good friend Erica. Beautiful coral right off the beach, caves, and beautiful fish abounded.
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