I took the level 5 expert test to be a REEF expert surveyor and I passed with 99.5%! I am now an expert at identifying most marine life by their common names, although I do know quite a few scientific names too. This morning, Ryan and I woke up at 5:30am to drive to Hanauma Bay and snorkel on the outter reef. I've never done that before so I was really excited! It was so good that we snorkeled for two hours and now I've got a ton of photos to share!!!!! Ryan took a lot, a lot, a lot of photos of coral and algae, but I don't know most of them so I didn't post them :) Oh and all of these photos were taken by Ryan!
Juvenile Reef Triggerfish (Humuhumunukunukuapua'a)
Bluestripe Snapper (Ta'ape)
Blacktail Snapper (To'au)
Yellowstripe Goatfish
Bluelined Surgeonfish
Rubbery Zoanthid
Teardrop Butterflyfishes and an Orangespine Unicornfish
False Brain Coral
Pinktail Durgon (Triggerfish)
Sleek Unicornfish
Blackside Hawkfish
Slate Pencil Urchin
Peacock Grouper (Roi)
Saddleback Butterflyfish
Spectacled Parrotfish
Pearl Wrasse
Bird Wrasse
Palenose Parrotfish
Blenny
Snowflake Moray Eel
Squid
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