July 25th, 2009

Morning trip was awesome! Saw a small pod of Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins right off the bat. We had a great group from L.A. (shout out: so great diving with you guys!) We went to the crowd pleaser: Nai'a Bay and then to Golden Arches. Golden Arches was off the hook. Rose found a BLACK FROG FISH! It had a white fishing lure and white toes! ( well, the very tips of it's pectoral fins, that it uses like toes... or hands... were white) We also had mating octopus that we watched for over 5 minutes... mating. We also found another huge frog fish, grey, with lots of curmudgeony growths... awesome. We lost an Ono between dives, but caught one on the way home!!! Fresh fish for everyone for dinner! Looking forward to having you guys out again tomorrow!! (oh, Nai'a bay was awesome too: rays, eels, conchs, frog fish, cornets, box fish, brittle star, whip coral shrimp.........)