This is another is a series of distraction diaries. They are meant as a brief refresher and a reminder that we share this small piece of rock will a wide variety of amazing and wonderful creatures. I hope you enjoy your visit.
Westside Oahu Sunset
The title of this diary comes from this common little Hawaiian wrasse.
I looked it up in my Hawaiian fish book and found out it is called the Ornate Wrasse and I thought, well yes it is.
Phyllidiella pustulosa, a common Indo-Pacific nudibranch.
Eightline Wrasse
Christmas Tree Worm in coral. The blue features are the worm's breathing and feeding apparatus.
A school of Blackfin Chromis
Stout Moray
It didn't much like the lens in its face.
The iconic Yellow Tang. While not completely endemic to Hawaii this fish is only common here. They are highly sought by the aquarium industry and so are under a lot of pressure by fish hunters.
Brown and Goldring Surgeonfish cleaning a Honu or Green Sea Turtle.
Brown Surgeonfish. It seem like an entirely inadequate name for this pretty fish.
Bottlenose Dolphin These large dolphins were harassing a pod of much smaller Spinner Dolphins.
An island girl from Kiribati who works on one of the local tourist dolphin watching and snorkeling boats.
And some boobies....
This is an unusual sight in Hawaii, a Brewster's Brown Booby. This white-headed subspecies is more common in the eastern Pacific.
The Brewster's and a couple of Shearwaters.
A more typical Brown Booby.
And we will end with some of these...
(This highly processed HDR-look is not my typical style. Just playing around with software)
As always feel free to post your photos and please be good humans.
Aloha