A couple of days of boat diving off of Waianae, the west coast of Oahu, during the first week followed by North Shore diving at Tunnels in Kauai during the second week.
1 First day of diving off of Waianae, Oahu with Ocean Concepts was at the Black Rock dive site where I encountered this tiny White Stripe Cleaner Shrimp
2 Also at the Black Rock dive site, this Banded Urchin which looks similar to the Zebra Urchins of the Caribbean
3 A small Arc-Eye Hawkfish at Land of Oz, the second dive site of the day
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5 Schooling fish at Land of Oz
6 Giant Moray being approached by a cleaner shrimp
7 Large star with arms at least a foot long
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9 The second day of Oahu diving were evening and night dives at Turtle Bluffs where this Whitetip Reef Shark was resting
10 A Blackside Hawkfish taking a break from the action
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12 At night, this Parrotfish was sleeping sheltered under some rocks
13 Diving at Tunnels on Kauai we found this rose-like egg sac laid by the Spanish Dancer nudibranch
14 The Spanish Dancer itself
15 This tiny Dragonet scoots along the sandy bottom at Tunnels, it's coloration disguising it extremely well
16 Turtle cleaning station on top of the Tunnels reef
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18 Whitetip Reef Shark at Tunnels
19 These are the long tentacles of the Spaghetti Worm whose body remains hidden in a hole it has bored