| Wow! What a wonderful place for snorkeling and | | | | the deep in around 15 feet of water, so even |
| scuba diving the Big Island of Hawaii is, Kona received | | | | snorklers can se them. You can find frog fish that |
| the moniker the Gold Coast as you would look in the | | | | look like rocks when they get older and stone fish |
| water and it would be shimmering gold with the | | | | that look like stones, hence the name, but you need |
| tremendous schools of yellow tang, even today you | | | | to be careful as the stone fish have poisonous spines. |
| can see big schools of these fish. Hawaii is very | | | | Something else that you might not want to play with |
| unique in that 25% of the fish that are here are only | | | | would be the eels they are not aggressive but their |
| found here. It is not uncommon to count over 150 | | | | favorite food is octopus and they have bad vision, so |
| different spices of fish at Honounou. Turtles, dolphins | | | | your hand will look quite appetizing to them. There |
| and manta rays are routinely spotted by Big Island | | | | are many different types here from dwarf eels to |
| Hawaii scuba divers & snorkels at Honounou. | | | | giant morays, yellow & white mouths and green |
| Boat Dives are the norm in Hawaii, but an exception | | | | head morays are all fairly common. Another great |
| is the famous 2 step at Honounou or the City of | | | | find here is the very hard to spot leaf scorpions |
| Refuge which has over 150 different species of fish. | | | | which look like leafs but have the same type of eyes |
| It is not uncommon to see turtles as they cruise | | | | as the stone fish, which look like what I would guess |
| along eating the grasses and mosses that grow along | | | | the monolith called TMA from 2001 a Space Odyssey |
| the shore. Picasso trigger fish one of the most | | | | would look like when you peered in except the |
| colorful reef fish also known as lagoon trigger fish are | | | | difference here is that if Dave looked in he would |
| found on he left side, if you are looking out towards | | | | say instead "Wow its full of fish"! |