Wow! What a wonderful place for snorkeling and scuba diving the Big Island of Hawaii is, Kona received the moniker the Gold Coast as you would look in the water and it would be shimmering gold with the tremendous schools of yellow tang, even today you can see big schools of these fish. Hawaii is very unique in that 25% of the fish that are here are only found here. It is not uncommon to count over 150 different spices of fish at Honounou. Turtles, dolphins and manta rays are routinely spotted by Big Island Hawaii scuba divers & snorkels at Honounou.
Boat Dives are the norm in Hawaii, but an exception is the famous 2 step at Honounou or the City of Refuge which has over 150 different species of fish. It is not uncommon to see turtles as they cruise along eating the grasses and mosses that grow along the shore. Picasso trigger fish one of the most colorful reef fish also known as lagoon trigger fish are found on he left side, if you are looking out towards the deep in around 15 feet of water, so even snorklers can se them. You can find frog fish that look like rocks when they get older and stone fish that look like stones, hence the name, but you need to be careful as the stone fish have poisonous spines.
Something else that you might not want to play with would be the eels they are not aggressive but their favorite food is octopus and they have bad vision, so your hand will look quite appetizing to them. There are many different types here from dwarf eels to giant morays, yellow & white mouths and green head morays are all fairly common. Another great find here is the very hard to spot leaf scorpions which look like leafs but have the same type of eyes as the stone fish, which look like what I would guess the monolith called TMA from 2001 a Space Odyssey would look like when you peered in except the difference here is that if Dave looked in he would say instead “Wow its full of fish”!
Fred Tittle has lived and worked in holiday vacation resorts his entire life, from Lake Geneva’s Playboy Club, as a rock jock for KSPN FM in Aspen Colorado, he became a PADI Pro Scuba Diver in Hawaii, diving on Maui, Kauai, Kona on the big island, and Waikiki on Oahu. He now owns EcoSea Dive in Sihanoukville Cambodia where he teaches SSI and PADI scuba diving courses and runs liveaboards in the gulf of Thailand and Asia adventure tours, http://www.ecosea.com
Fred’s new project http://www.CheapCharliesHotels.com where he reviews cheap hotels , budget guesthouses, discount accommodations and cheap international flights, but is really an excuse to go scuba diving on vacation more, China is up next.
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