SHARK!

I SAW MY FIRST WHITE TIP REEF SHARK WHILE SNORKELING YESTERDAY AT SHARKS COVE!  I'VE SEEN A BUNCH WHILE SURFING, BUT NEVER WHILE SNORKELING!  THE ONE I SAW WAS AT LEAST 5 FEET!  SOOOOO AWESOME!!!!

Queen at Shark's Cove

Me and Ryan saw the Queen yesterday!  What a rare sight!  The Queen is the Queen Nenue (chub) and is the yellow morph of the endemic Hawaiian Chub species.  It's super duper rare, so we were really lucky!  We also spotted three other rare animals: the Crown of Thorns, Spectacles Parrotfish, and Goslin's Fangblenny.

Look, its the Queen!

The Queen Nenue

The invasive Crown of Thorns.  They are poisonous so don't touch!  And they eat live corals, leaving behind a white skeleton.  See, it's eating one now :(  And you can't chop them up because they regenerate and instead of one, you'll have a lot.

School of chubs

School of manini and whitebar surgeonfish

shortnose wrasse

ornate wrasse

Spectacled Parrotfish is rare because of all the fishermen

Goslin's Fangblenny

Unidentified limpet, do you know what it is?

Inside my new place

I can see the the ocean from my kitchen window (and a lot of forest)

This is the opposite side of the studio which is my bedroom

Another view of the kitchen

I roll the table in front of the door to cook.

The shower is outside the bathroom....

My clothes are in these cabinets across from the bathroom and shower

My bedroom is right next to the shower.  More forest outside.  I have a fold out table too.

Typical bathroom. Toilet and sink.

Just Moved into a Studio!

Pool, slide, and resident dog, Molly

From the patio