In terms of time gone from the hotel, this was the longest day yet! Started off with our second snorkel tour; will go into a more detailed comparison of the two trips later, but, simply put, this was more of a ‘bus’….lots of people and the service was a lot less ‘personal’. But, it was cheaper, and went where we wanted to go.
First stop was Molokini Crater; most often, if you mention snorkeling in Maui, this is the place that you talk about.
The ocean was very blue near the boat and schools of this brown fish were everywhere.
As you headed in towards the ‘beach’…really, towards the rocks, the coral gave the ocean a more greenish tint
And when I really got close to the rocks/shore, things turned more blue again….the top picture here was the biggest fish I saw, and I ‘chased’ him to get this photo…the air bubbles are from the waves crashing against the rocks!
The second stop was at Turtle Town….over near Makena. One big goal was to see some turtles while snorkeling, and happily, as soon as we hit the water, there was this huge(!) turtle right near the boat. I have about 45 seconds of video of the big one and about ten seconds of video of the second one I saw (a smaller one) before he took off. We rented a camera for Kevin and he tracked/stalked the first big one for a long time; he has a lot of great pictures to show for it.
This was the big one….got this picture after the video
This was the smaller one; got these pictures as he got close to the surface
just some yellow fish that I didn’t see at Molokini
One other nice feature of the ship (the Pride of Maui) was that it had a slide on the front…helped to occupy the boys who weren’t too into snorkeling. At the end of the day, I came forward and took pictures….am just totally blown away by how well these came out, I was bobbing up and down in the ocean and timing when to take the picture was tough….I withdraw any complaints about the waterproof camera!
The first picture I took….a little off center, but, hey, I’ll take it!
My timing was just a little off here.
Nailed this one. Matthew’s a total ham!
Also got Kevin mid-flight.
