Wednesday, March 11

Kauai/Koloa, day 11

Unsurprisingly, another wonderful dive day with Fathom Five down in Koloa.  As the world’s anxiety-producing news swirls around us, and it is absolutely getting more alarming every day, we headed out for a morning shore dive at Koloa Landing.  A small group of four of us enjoyed this fabulous site, a horseshoe shaped reef; the left side on the first dive, the right side on the second dive.

The dive was an easy, shallow one, with lots of good viewing—particularly a pufferfish, a boxfish, a barracuda hanging above a bait ball, trumpetfish, and an extremely friend wrasse that followed us through most of our dive, coming very close and seemingly wanting to be pet!

Pufferfish cruising
Boxfish
bait ball…
…with a barracuda hanging around in the distance (he’s about 4′-5′ long)
our friendly wrasse near the mushroom coral
rich in coral varieties
“mushroom” (Lobe) coral