July 24th, 2009

Morning trip: Decided to do Mike's reef again, because it was so awesome yesterday and we also visited Turtle Haven. The highlights: Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins passed through the dive site while we were underwater. We saw about 6 Crocodile Needle Fish at a cleaning station,  a Milk Fish, the biggest Sea Cucumber Crab ( almost completely black with awesome white spots on the fringe of the carapace) Crown of Thorns Sea Star, and a Hawaiian Swimming Crab. On the way to the next dive, we hooked an Ono... but it got away. We decided we'll come back for it tomorrow.

Turtle Haven was awesome. Haven't dove there in a while and we found two Frog Fish!! One was a bright yellow, golf ball sized, juvenile, very similar to the one at Nai'a Bay. We found it right near the mooring. The other, we found in the rubble, on the bottom, on it's side!! Weird spot to see one. It was rubble colored and softball sized. Also found 4 Flame Angel Fish, 2 Red Stripe Pipefish, octopus, a big red crab and we got to watch a large, yellow Trumpet Fish with its mouth wide open as it got dental work by a cleaner wrasse... and the cleaner wrasse was way in there! too cool.