Back from Maui!
 

The tilte says it all. I will post the remaining pics tomorrow.

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This is one of the many morays I saw. I think it is a Yellow Margin.

http://grimreefers.com/gallery/album...ture%20168.jpg

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Here is a White Mouth. Sorry for the cruddy pictures.

Here is one of the billion Cane Toads I saw when was going to and from the tide pools at night.


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This is a massive puffer. (I dont know the real name) :redface:

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20092.jpg

I will post much more later.

This guy here is a Lizard Fish.

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20064.jpg

This Hawk Fish was my first fish spotted at Black Rock.

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U went to hawaii, took pics and didnt even take one of a yellow tang :cry: . LOL Great pics cant wait for the rest.

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Wow very nice, my wife and I just got into Hawaii, I hope to get some pics half as good as you did



Robert

I have been swimming in Hawaii over 30 times and I still have yet to see a yellow tang, lots of parrot fish, sea turtles, eels, but no yellow tangs

Steve

i like the house boat pics better :eek:

I think they are deeper out??

That's a stars and stripes puffer - :cool:

nope the brown tang is the native tank to the Hawaiian islands, the yellow tang can come from all over and just collected through Hawaii. so Christmas islands ect on boats that return to Hawaii and ship from there.

Not to say there isn't any but they are not as common of a tang in Hawaii as people thing because they see them included on Hawaiian shipments.

Steve

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Very cool pics, how big would you say that huge puffer was?

OOO learn somthing new every day.

You must be confusing Z. flavescens with A. pyroferus. Z. flavescens comes from Hawaii and is collected around the Big Island.

concidering there has been a 10 year ban in effect (for the last 3 years) that prohibits the capture of Z. flavescens almost anywhere in the hawaii area I highly doubt it. it was almost wiped out localy and is starting to comback in protected areas but in the unprotected areas it is still declining in the Hawaiian chains.

Z. flavescens has a range that extends from Hawaii to Japan and so the boats are having to go farther away from Hawaii to catch them leagaly.

Steve

Steve,

I hate to sit and argue about this...but why do I have Z. flavescens in my system. The US gov't has only decreased the collection area by about 30% a few years ago. There are still thousands of "yellow" tangs coming out of Hawaii every month. In fact, I should have a couple hundred coming in next week for myself.

Oh ya...what brown tang are you speaking about?

I am trying to remember the name of it, but it was all over the place. at any rate with the yellow tang over the last 15 years having gone to Hawaii 2 or 3 times a year I have never seen one. and everything I read tells me they are not caught in local waters but rather a ways out, and that
when it sais Hawaiian tang on the order it just means that the colection point is Hawaii, weather or not that is true I cann't say.

If I can remember the name of the Brown one I will post it but the locals just refured to it as a brown tang last time I was asking about it.

Steve

It was almost 1.5 feet long (I think). Now for some more pictures and a Yellow Tang to make you people happy.

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20038.jpg

These two are Unicorn Tangs.

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20011.jpg

Mmmmmmmmm... uncooked hamburgers.

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Look its a Moorish Idol.

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20095.jpg

Does anyone out there know what type of Navy ship is this? I saw it when we went deep sea fishing.

http://www.grimreefers.com/gallery/a...ture%20204.jpg

Heres a sea turtle. Geez I wish I could take better pictures.



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Oh ya the pictures will keep coming for the next little while. I still have around 200 left! :mrgreen: . I will only put up the best.

Matt

Steve,

Where in Hawaii did you vacation? I know our yellows are coming from the north side of the big island. The larger yellows are collected in about 20ft of water and the smaller ones are in about 90ft. Off Kona, the water drops off real fast so they don't have to go out that far. Yes, they are in Hawaiian waters.

Moo on the barbeque and then Moo in the ocean - nice !

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Does anyone out there know what type of Navy ship is this? I saw it when we went deep sea fishing.

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I think that is a frigate I don’t know what nation it is from I would guess the US though :lol: if you have a hull number you can look it up on the US navy web site.

Brad

I went to Maui and I saw them at Black Rock. Anyone know if it is possible for Canadains to get collecting permits? I saw two Golden Dwarfs morays in about ten feet of water and would have killed for a permit.



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Matt

U just made my day. Proved Stircrazy wrong. Nice tang and Moorish Idol I got some Hawaii pics from when my parents went looks cool.

[quote="snaggle"]Looks like a Ticonderoga class to me

Steve

I think its an Arleigh Burke class fleet guided missile destroyer :biggrin:

Glad that you had a good time on your trip Matt.

Anthony

The captain and the rest of us ruled out missle ship. We thought it was a Frigate or PT Boat. Its number was 70.

Matt

Did you snag any pics of local hot babes? Haha.

Whooohoo I win, if the number was 70 here she is

"USS Lake Erie (CG-70) was built by Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. The USS Lake Erie's Keel was laid on 6 March 1990 and she was launched on 13 July 1991. Upon completion of her sea-trials after construction, Lake Erie transferred to the Pacific Fleet and was commisioned on 24 July 1993 as the twenty-fourth TICONDEROGA Class Guided Missile Cruiser in her homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. USS Lake Erie was the first US Navy warship to be commissioned in Hawaii. "


Steve

a winnah!

i zoomed way in using photoshop and it sure looked like a 70 to me. i also thought it looked like a missle boat.

I went to Oahu in June and saw yellows everywhere. They were swarming around the docks and marinas so I actually saw them more from land than when I was snorkelling.

BTW, great pics Matt. I know from experience how difficult it is to get a good shot with all the goggles and adrenaline getting in the way.

hmmm maybe the buggers just don't like me like the one I used to have in my tank :rolleyes:

Steve

when i went to maui i seen tons and tons of tangs.. yellow, clown tangs, etc... soooo beautiful... im going to move to maui one day. if anything, tangs are the most common fish i seen when snorkeling.