Moorish idol
Once again we were snorkeling today, this time at Kapalua Beach, which is about 4 km north of our condo. The beach is very nice and sheltered from much of the wind. It was the nicest snorkeling we’ve had so far in Maui. The water was quite clear and calm.
While we were out on our first swim, we kept hearing an air horn. Enid quit just a few minutes before I did, and when I got in she told me that there was some kind of a problem at the far end of the beach. She said the fire truck had come by. Later I saw the people from that end of the beach leaving, and it looked to me as if they had been having a wedding. Most of them were wearing leis and it looked as if they had very nice bouquets of flowers on a large tray.
Hawaiian dascyllus
Teardrop butterflyfish
We swam a total of three times, twice before lunch and once after. In the morning I saw the largest coronet fish I’ve ever seen. It was at least 2 m long. In the afternoon I went out by myself, and swam all the way to the far side of the bay. There were some nice coral “islands” there just below the surface, and they had schools of fish, especially large numbers of Hawaiian Dascyllus. My goggles kept fogging up, and I couldn’t seem to get them clear, so I swam all the way back to where we were set up on the beach. Enid wasn’t there, but I couldn’t see her anywhere in the water, so I cleaned my lenses on the goggles and went back out. When I returned about half an hour later, Enid said that she had gone swimming again as she was far too hot sitting on the beach with no shade.