Research Finds

The new year has brought back the whales and funding for my research. So a few of us naturalist that crossover as researchers are back in action. Morgan and I have been going on getting more turtle ID photos for our catalog. On todays snorkel at Olowalu we came across many beautiful sea turtles and a couple of rarer finds. This reticulated butterflyfish is very rare to see around Maui. There was a pair but very timid and fast moving so this was the only semi good picture I could snap.
  The blue swallowtail slug at the bottom is the second one I have seen but the first of this color variation. All of this along with the sounds of breaching whales not too far away makes for a pretty amazing laboratory. 



Blue Swallowtail Slug

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