SMILING CAVES !! 15 march

i think that’s what we should call Sea Cave and Spitting Cave, two of our dive sites on the Portlock – Hanauma Bay wall.  Why? because everyone comes back smiling from those dives – they really are fantastic, spectacular, enthralling dives.  before...

EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE IS REAL. . . 12 march

so said Pablo Picasso.  He must have been a scuba diver!  not a lot of Cubism down below, but when you scuba dive a dive site like Turtle Canyons, you really feel someone or something has a real imagination!!  the beauty and intricacy of a single coral head is just...

FLAT AS A PANCAKE !! 9 march

I love to find those pancake flat peacock flounders that slide around on the sand at Koko Craters. I have seen them range in size from the size of a dinner plate at Maxine’s house (huge) down to the size of a good old american quarter!  great example of...
ME TARZAN, YOU TURTLE ! 7 march

ME TARZAN, YOU TURTLE ! 7 march

well, i’m not really Tarzan (except occasionally in my dreams), but sometimes when we dive Koko Craters there are so many big green hawaiin sea turtles there, that it’s like Tarzan released a stampede of turtles and we’re swimming for our lives!...