12-8 Maui pics

[Gilligan]

Jim - you are "The Frogfish King"!! Awesome spotting and photos. Can you please swing by Timor on your way back from your next SE Asia trip ? We could use your spotting expertise!

I must confess I did not spot these two, my dive buddy did.

 

[DennisW]

Wonderful pics. Really like the Nudi.

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

Yep, must purchase kayak

 

[kidspot]

I'd be happy spotting any one of those creatures on a dive, how do you manage to see SO much every time out... you and your buddy have got good eyes!

btw - beautiful shots - Were you one of the divers that day that got to see the whale too?

 

[AndyT]

Really like those Frogfish - still got to see one myself.

 

[Charlie99]

Two questions --

1. How can you tell the sex of a frogfish? and


2. What time of day? It blowing hard, and lots of whitecaps off Kihei around noon on Friday.

Charlie Allen

 

[Gilligan]

I'd be happy spotting any one of those creatures on a dive, how do you manage to see SO much every time out... you and your buddy have got good eyes!

btw - beautiful shots - Were you one of the divers that day that got to see the whale too?

:shakehead on the whale.

I was on B & B Scuba's boat and the DM spotted it. By the time I swam over it was out of my view. The boat captain got a birds eye view of it.

Blessie (spelling?) and I were dive buddies on the second dive at Red Hill where all these pics were taken. She is an expert at finding critters and spotted all but the crab. That eel is the first one of its kind I have seen in the 13 years I have lived here.

 

[Gilligan]

Two questions --

1. How can you tell the sex of a frogfish? and


2. What time of day? It blowing hard, and lots of whitecaps off Kihei around noon on Friday.

Charlie Allen

1. Somewhat of an assumption they are a mated pair. The larger one is always the female.

2. About 8:30 am. Choppy but not windy at that time. Molokini Crater was blown out so the boats were not going there.

 

[onfloat]

I'd like to know how you got so close to the Mantis Shrimp. Great shot.

 

[Gilligan]

I'd like to know how you got so close to the Mantis Shrimp. Great shot.

Patience and a zoom lens