Rain!!

 Thrilled to have rain! Not just a bit of coolness, but nice smell and noises.

Pink God's rays!

Moon and God's pink rays

I'm thinking it's time to learn Photoshop, so I can disappear those elec/phone lines!

Light. Clouds and Palms. Nice! Thanks for reading...

Disappointed is better than endangered

I have had vertigo for a little over a week, so that's why there's been no snorkeling and thus, no report!

However, fully ok, I thought to visit Hanauma Bay to see if I could get into the water: NOPE!

The waves were going off. There was serious wind. And the sun never showed itself from behind the clouds.

I thought long and hard about it. But I am aware that in the past, I have been stubborn and stiff-necked. So I decided that I would be neither of those today, and err on the side of caution. One true thing that decided me was that I saw NONE of the regular swimmers in the water. So I figured they knew something I didn't. So I snapped a few shots and then walked back up the hill and into my car, which I directed to church. 

 The shot above was taken from the rain-free park bench just outside the women's bathroom. What is normally blue water was laced with waves that crashed.

 All that white would have made it bad visibility. And since octopuses are good hiders, I figured not to waste my time! Pretty, though, right?

The wave pictured above blew up above the surrounding rocks. OH YEAH, not going anywhere near that.

 Lack of light was a problem that was never really solved. The sun must have come up, but you couldn't prove it very well, as it stayed behind the cloud cover.

 Palm tress and the series of waves.

On the walk back up. I normally go in about the middle of the curve, fully loaded today with wave action.

 This area is called Witches Brew. For obvious reasons! It was really going off today. The lifeguards warned people not to go outside the barrier reef, so they definitely would not have allowed anyone near this area.

A bit more from the lifeguard shack area. Sorry to have missed my octopuses after being off over a week, but definitely thinking I made the right choice to stay out. And I was early to church, too, so all good! I am told that this wind and wave mixture should be blown out by Wednesday. Here's hoping.

Still glad i went

OK, the water quality was poor today, due I think to waves and the sun not totally coming up yet. However, I still spotted two octopuses, so my time was not wasted.

 I won't blame you if you don't see he'e #2...the water quality wasn't great!

I'm still counting it, though....

Another fish I gotta look up. The days are packed!

Brighteye Chromis and the mottled colored one, below. 

 Cornet

Picasso Trigger

 And the regular Humu

See the water quality?!

 Overloaded Urchin

 I am sorry to say that the Bay is very sad: much reef damage. 



But the sunrise is still pretty!!

God is good!
PS: I had started a pretend non-alcoholic beer last night and didn't finish it. I had it in my ice cube Bubba cup. So this morning, without thinking, I drank, because I wanted cold after my coffee. What a shocker! I can't remember the last time I had beer, albeit pretend beer, for breakfast!

blown out water and 1 octopus

These days, I guess you can't have one without the other. There was wind, waves, and tide coming up, so I was very fortunate to see anything at all of note. But I was able to see the octopus. When I take only 85 pix, you know something's going on. And I didn't bother to venture into the deeper side, 5-7 foot waves.....The surfers were digging it!

 On my first pass, I didn't see the octopus. Don't know if he just got home, or was hiding too well the first time. See below: he was peeking at me!

k

he's just above the k

You have to look really hard to see it, but there's a barracuda in the Keiki Pond! Look for the black coloring on the tail and it's up from there...

 Female Trunk or box fish

Pretty clouds and waves

 Sleeping honu

 Even amid all the waves, nudibranch eggs still are attached to the rocks.

 Palms and clouds

 Pink Coral for my sis-in-law.

 A very pretty Hairy Triton shell that I think still had someone living in it. So it's back on the bottom.

 Seal snoozing down near the hotel

 A starfish surprised me.

 Waves and waves and waves

 Bluefin Trevally. It was racing around. Never did find out what it was so excited about.

So not a great swim, but very happy to spot an octopus. It's all good. Thanks for reading.