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  WHEN YOU STEP OFF THE BOAT, deflate your BC, clear your ears at 10 feet and see a Spotted Eagle Ray flying leasurly past about 30 feet away, you know this is going to be a killer dive day!  We recovered from that excitement when we noticed a medium sized White Mouth Morey hunting with a Peacock Grouper and a half dozen Bluefin Travally. This is a behaviour Kona divers have noticed for several years.  It is always very cool to see a free swimming eel.  The idea is that as the eel passes through small spaces between the coral heads and rocks, the things Groupers and Travally like to eat dart out. To start the process a Grouper will swim up to an eel and caress its face with a fin, after a few seconds of that the Morey begins hunting.

THE VIS WAS GREAT, from 90 feet I could clearly see the second group of divers on the surface and maybe 40 feet toward the shore.  We checked out a Pipefish hiding in a hole with two Ghost Shrimp. A few minutes later the Eagle Ray made a second pass to delight the group of divers too.  We saw an Octopus, a beautiful Flat Worm, Flounder, Golden Gobies and lots of yellow fish too.

LATER IN THE DAY, near the shore it was baby day. There were dozens of juvenile fish. Best of all there was a Whitetip Reef Shark pup about 2 feet long. He’s been hanging out in a low ceiling lava tube for the last week or two, but this was the first time I was lucky enough to catch him there.  Nearby in another hiding hole, I saw my first Sponge Crab. Well, I might have seen one before and just thought it was a sponge.  Just before the dive ended we spotted a pair of Reticulated Butterfly Fish, perhaps the most beautiful of all the butterfly fish. (Pictured Above)

AT THE END OF THE DAY we thanked Captain Paul, and all the Jack’s Diving Locker staff for another great day of diving.  Join us in the water off the Kona Coast when you can.  Feel free to add your dive experiences to this blog. You are welcome to call or e-mail with your dive questions too.

Joyce Murphy, PADI Advanced Diver

“In Real Estate and Diving, Experience Counts!”

Joyce Murphy, Realtor (B)
Hawaiian Isle Real Estate LLC and Luxury Real Estate Florida, Inc.
808-443-4302 / 808-327-1155
More Kona Real Estate Information at: www.KonaBigIsland.com

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