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The following images are thumbnails. If you click on them a larger image will open up and the picture will take up most of your screen. Again these are medium qualifty jpegs. If you ask nicely I may be able to provide a higher quality image.
A few people have already asked me about "What is that pink stuff on the rocks in some of the pictures?" Well, they're usually Pink Rock Crust (aka Encrusting Coralline Algae) or in some cases might even be Encrusting Hydrocorals. They're eaten by a variety of animals - apparently as a good source of calcium.
Links to the various groups of organisms:
Cephalopods, Crustaceans, Fish, Mollusks, Nudibranchs, Sea Anemones, Sea Cucumbers & Echinoderms, Sponges, Tunicates, Worms, Miscellaneous
Cephalopods
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| Octopus looking out from the
entrance of its den. (May 22, 2008) |
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Crustaceans
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| Banded Coral Shrimp ~ 5 inches [12.5cm] wide. If you look
closely it actually takes up most of the centre of the image. I was actually hanging upside down to take this picture. This was the only cleaner shrimp I saw, and the first crustacean I ran into. (May 22, 2008) |
Spiny Lobster ~ 18 inches [45
cm] for the body length. Saw this one during the day and a couple of them at night. Definitely if you want to see crustaceans night time is the best time for these in Hawaii. Unlike British Columbia where they are out at all times of the day. Of course we don't have any large lobsters in the Pacific North West. (May 22, 2008) |
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Fish
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| Yellowmargin Moray Eel (May 22, 2008) | Dwarf Moray (May 22, 2008) |
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| White Mouth Moray (May 22, 2008) | Yellowmargin Moray (May 22, 2008) |
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| Arc-Eye Hawkfish ~ 6 inches [15
cm] long. These fish were common but quick to move away from me. I was almost frustrated initially, but finally ran into a couple of them that stayed still long enough for me to take a picture of them. (May 22, 2008) |
Arc-Eye Hawkfish (May 22, 2008) |
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| Arc-Eye Hawkfish (May 22, 2008) | Blacksided Hawkfish (May 22, 2008) |
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| Fourspot Buttefly Fish (May 22, 2008) | Bluestripe Snappers (May 22, 2008) |
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| Manybar Goatfish (May 22, 2008) | Manta Ray and a scuba diver (May
22, 2008) |
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| Two Manta Rays (May 22, 2008) |
Manta Ray and zoo-plankton (May
22, 2008) |
| Here's a video of the Manta Ray
dive we did. This is from the same dive that I took the previous photographs from. Note the column of fish in the center above the sets of dive lights located in the center of the divers. There were around 40+ divers. (May 22, 2008) |
Orange Spine Unicorn Fish
[Umaumalei - hawaiin name] is one of many different kinds of tangs found in the Hawaiian islands. Most are algae eaters and keep the reef free of coral-smothering algae. |
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Sea Anemones ( Cnidarians )
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| Orange Cup Corals under the Golden Arches near Kona. (May 22, 2008) | Orange Cup Corals - these were
also located on the same ceiling of the arch way. Note all the air pockets. Hopefully they had no negative effect on them. (May 22, 2008) |
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Sea Cucumbers & Starfish ( Echinoderms )
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| Banded Urchin ~ 12 inches [30 cm] (May 22, 2008) | Crown-Of-Thorns Star ~ 14 inches
[35 cm] across. I was quite surprised how few star fish were here in comparison to the Pacific Northwest of North America. More were visible at night. (May 22, 2008) |
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| Urchins on dead coral (May 22, 2008) | Spiky Sea Cucumber (May 22, 2008) |
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Worms
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| Divided Flatworm (May 22, 2008) |
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Miscellaneous
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| Hawksbill Sea Turtle. One of
only a couple of pictures that I have of marine reptiles. (May 22, 2008) |
Hawksbill Sea Turtle (May 22, 2008) |
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| Pink Encrusting Algae - looks
identical the the pink encrusting algae that we have in British Columbia. (May 22, 2008) |
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