Capturing the Moment

  New Years started off with a bang for me here in Oahu. After some traditional new years food with friends Heidi and I grabbed our snorkel gear and headed to the east side of the island for some ocean time. There is always something so satisfying about being in the ocean. The day before I had led a tour along the southeast side of the island and the winds were being blocked by the island, opposite of what usually happens. This weather condition made flat calm conditions on the ocean's surface all along the east coast, opening up tons of snorkel and underwater photography locations that are usually too blown out by the trade winds. We trekked down to one of our favorite east coast dive spots at the Halona blowhole. Just beside the blowhole overlook there is a path down to a secret beach called Eternity Beach. Locals call it cockroach cove but I've never seen a cockroach there. Luckily the weather conditions were the same as the day before. The water felt a bit cooler...

  February has been a month of friends and rain out here in Oahu. Our house has been bustling with guests and I have stayed busy exploring the island as the tour guide. I wanted to show my good friend Phoebe what Oahu snorkeling was like so we headed to the southeast corner of the island. I knew Phoebe was a great swimmer and free diver so we headed to the cliffs near the Halona blowhole. The waves were small, so the kick out from Eternity Beach was quite easy. We could feel a slight current but no "Molokai express" today which can be a dangerously powerful current ripping along the coastline here threatening to whisk snorkelers and divers off to the far off island of Molokai. We kick against the current while following several green sea turtles out into the blue. The water clarity was great so we stayed in the deeper water until eventually circling back along the cliffs. The cliffs here rise up over a hundred feet and plummet down another forty feet underwater. A few ...