Hanauma Bay

Honolulu HI 2/11/2006

Hanauma Bay was so cool I thought I'd do a post just on it. Dorina and I came back at 6:00 a.m. to get in some snorkling before our flights out to Saipan. It was still dark when we got there and we wandered around a bit until a staff person directed us to the path to get down to the beach. Once there we had to wait a little while before it was light enough to see anything. The water was a bit chilly but I snorkled for about an hour and a half. It was just like swimming in a giant salt water aquarium. I saw so many different types of fish that I couldn't even remember what they yall looked like when I finally purchased a guide to Hawaiian Fishes. One I did remember was a rockmover (Novaculichthys taenirus). The place was so cool. And because it was early I guess, it was not at all busy.