Sun Halo

Did you look up at the sun today?  There was a halo around it!  I've noticed this phenomenon before, but not in a while. I looked it up, it's caused by ice crystals within the cirrus clouds, and could mean precipitation or rain is in the forecasted within the next 24 hours.  Cool!

Beach House Bound!

Another awesome weekend!  More awesome pictures!

Blue octocoral, and some other pink stuff...

A horse in the ocean?!

Ryan SUPing way out in the bay.  Check out that pose!

Rubbery zoanthid

blue rice coral!!!!  

he'e

largest coral head i've ever seen!!!!  it must be like 50 years old or something!

mullet school

Ryan, the coconut picker!

Short and Sweet Surf Clip

Clay Marzo - Grey Matter from Heavy Mayo on Vimeo.

This is the Sundial

shell that Ryan found for me!!!!!  Isn't it beautiful!?   Happy Valentine's Day!

Kona Winds

weren't in Waikiki this morning, because it was windy and the water was freezing cold!  Snorkeling was fun though!  Look what I found in the channel!  Two endemic species!  Finger coral (Porites compressa) and a male Hawaiian Razor or Knifefish (Cymolutes lecluse).

Gorgeous Wedding

In Makaha Valley!

Another Clear Day

A Kahe Crab (Utinomiella dimorpha) invading a Cauliflower Coral (Pocillopora meandrina)

Hawaiian Triplefin (Enneapterygius atriceps)

Another Speckled Scorpionfish

Dictyosphaeria spp. (Photo by Ryan)

Clearfin Lizardfish (Photo by Ryan)

Critters from the Reef

Since I learned about the Speckled Scorpionfish, I went looking for one again - found it!

Whitemouth Moray

Clearfin Lizardfish (Photo by Ryan)

endemic Hawaiian Lionfish (Photo by Ryan)

Under the Water Again

A surprise fish in the cauliflower coral, a speckled scorpionfish

getting up close and in your polyps with a cauliflower coral (photo by Ryan)

feather duster worm inside it's tube (Photo by Ryan)

needle-spined urchin (Ouch!) (Photo by Ryan)

artistic shot and lens flare (Photo by Ryan)

2 ft. redlip parrotfish (female)

spotted boxfish, male