New finds in Hanauma Bay

Today is not a perfect day for snorkeling. Even at Hanauma Bay.

I admit I was not in a good mood after how things turned out in the recent couple of days. Plus, the sky is rather cloudy, and rain comes and goes. I have been to Hawaii many times, this time the weather is the worst.

As we were having breakfast at the Hyatt Regency’s 3rd floor balcony, I saw rain pouring down and frowned. “We are going regardless.” Stinky Monkey noticed, and said firmly.

OK. We go. In my memory, Hanauma Bay never disappoints.

We got there around 8:30AM. For the first time ever, the beach down there looked deserted. “That looks like a bad sign.” I told myself.

As we walked down, we saw the red warnig sign: “Strong Current.”

I shook my head. I hate choppy waters. It makes the underwater world murkey, and hard to focus with the camera.

But guess what, as it turns out, this time we found something new. A new type of humuhumunukunukuapuaa fish! And she is so big, so beautiful, and so close to us!

Later I checked my Hawaii Reef Fish book. The kind we saw is Lagoon Triggerfish, different than the Picasso Triggerfish (also as Hawaii State Fish) that we have seen in the previous snorkeling trips.

Noticing we were approaching, the sensitive Lagoon Triggerfish shoot out a stream of sand and swam away.

And some old friend, a surgeon fish!

Meanwhile, we also saw so many Threadfin Bufferflyfish. Here is one getting close to my camera.

We also saw different kind of colorful wrasses. Here is a beautiful one.