7-11 crab

spotted puffer

This dwarf moray was not intimidated by my close approach. He kept his tiny jaws wide open and didn't back down at all. Dwarf morays reach a maximum length of 12 inches.

green sea turtle

Saw a pair of rarely seen Tinker's butterflyfish at Honaunau on Monday. Unfortunately, a squarespot goatfish was feeding nearby and stirred up the sand making photography pretty hard.

green sea turtle

blackside hawkfish

big longnose butterflyfish

raccoon butterflyfish

Icefjord

Iceberg Icefjord

The first dives of the summer yielded nothing spectacular, but I did get a snap of this cute little spotted boxfish male.

four-spot butterflyfish

Happy Manta Monday!

whitemouth moray

spinner dolphins

yellow tangs

This spinner dolphin appeared out of nowhere, circled me twice, and then continued on its way. A minute later, a stream of more than a dozen dolphins swam past.

Tinker's butterflyfish

green sea turtle

Inside a baitball of akule

moorish idol

bluestripe squirrelfish

threadfin butterflyfish

ringtail wrasse

whitemouth moray

Icefjord

reef manta ray

snow goddess nudibranch

green sea turtle

spinner dolphins

whitemouth moray

bigfin squid

green sea turtle

manybar goatfish

green sea turtle

Hawaiian swimming crab

spotfin squirrelfish

peacock grouper

A bullethead parrotfish gets a touch-up at a cleanibg station.

blackside hawkfish and arc-eye hawkfish

spinner dolphins passing by

bluefin trevally

A Starry Cleaner Shrimp waits to descend on an Undulated Moray.

Pacific trumpetfish

A somewhat rare Tinker's butterflyfish

Tinker's butterflyfish

reef manta ray

Commerson's frogfish

Thompson's butterflyfish