June 24th, 2009

We are having a rather large south swell, so viz was not the greatest today. We went to Nai'a Bay and Golden Arches. Here are the highlights: Garden Eels, Tiny Sea Hares ( we couldn't find them in the ID book, so we looked them up online and the species name means, 'small') There was a colony of maybe 6 or 8 of them. They were about 1/4 inch in length, black with a blue ring on top. We also saw an Octopus, Spotted eagle Ray, a huge Yellow Margin Moray Eel and the Magnificent Sea Star was still hanging out in 80' of water! yay! At Golden Arches, we saw: a Shortnose Mantis Shrimp, 3 White Margin Nudibranches with and egg sack under the north archway, a Triton's Trumpet and a Flameback Coral Shrimp.