Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board  

Go Back   Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board > General > Photography

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 02-03-2012, 09:17 AM
Samw's Avatar
Samw Samw is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Yaletown Vancouver
Posts: 2,651
Samw is on a distinguished road
Default Snorkelling Pics from Kauai

Here are a few pics from Ke'e and Poipu Beaches in Kauai.





Bluestripe Butterflyfish



Eyestripe Surgeonfish






















Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 02-03-2012, 09:18 AM
TaioneReefer TaioneReefer is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 52
TaioneReefer is on a distinguished road
Default

Beautiful
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 02-03-2012, 02:33 PM
Chowder's Avatar
Chowder Chowder is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Surrey BC
Posts: 1,426
Chowder is on a distinguished road
Default

Very nice pics, thanks for sharing.


Chris
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 02-03-2012, 03:36 PM
lastlight's Avatar
lastlight lastlight is offline
Gold Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Calgary
Posts: 6,997
lastlight has a spectacular aura aboutlastlight has a spectacular aura aboutlastlight has a spectacular aura about
Default

Wow nice shots! That turtle under the halide shimmer is incredible! And third last... I love the crisscross stripes
__________________
Brett
My 67 392 225 101 94 34 97 404 28 93 209 gallon reef.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 02-03-2012, 04:01 PM
kien's Avatar
kien kien is offline
¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸. ><(((º>
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary, AB
Posts: 7,665
kien will become famous soon enoughkien will become famous soon enough
Default

Wow, I miss Hawaii. Our trip there a few years back is what got me into reefing. I wanted to take all those pretty fish home with me. .. and I guess I sorta did in the end
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 02-03-2012, 04:11 PM
Delphinus's Avatar
Delphinus Delphinus is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
Posts: 12,896
Delphinus has a spectacular aura aboutDelphinus has a spectacular aura aboutDelphinus has a spectacular aura about
Send a message via MSN to Delphinus
Default

Great pictures. I found Ke'e and Poipu among the nicer spots for snorkeling there.
__________________
-- Tony
My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!

Last edited by Delphinus; 02-03-2012 at 04:23 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 02-03-2012, 07:34 PM
Coralgurl's Avatar
Coralgurl Coralgurl is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Calgary
Posts: 1,894
Coralgurl is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by lastlight View Post
Wow nice shots! That turtle under the halide shimmer is incredible! And third last... I love the crisscross stripes
Ocean City had one of those a couple weeks ago, was stunning, took a couple of photos for looking up, not reef safe....

Great shots, thanks for sharing!
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 02-03-2012, 08:42 PM
SeaHorse_Fanatic SeaHorse_Fanatic is offline
Gold Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Burnaby
Posts: 4,880
SeaHorse_Fanatic will become famous soon enough
Default

Beautiful fish but I'm shocked at how barren the ocean floor looks. I expected to see corals and more of a reef scenery, but the rocks and sand look almost bare of life.
__________________
If you see it, can take care of it, better get it or put it on hold. Otherwise, it'll be gone & you'll regret it!
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 02-03-2012, 09:11 PM
Samw's Avatar
Samw Samw is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Yaletown Vancouver
Posts: 2,651
Samw is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic View Post
Beautiful fish but I'm shocked at how barren the ocean floor looks. I expected to see corals and more of a reef scenery, but the rocks and sand look almost bare of life.
Most of the pics were taken very close to shore. I would guess that with the volume of snorkellers, swimmers, and dippers, and the amount of sediment that gets blown around there, corals aren't going to grow very well there.






Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 02-03-2012, 09:32 PM
Delphinus's Avatar
Delphinus Delphinus is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
Posts: 12,896
Delphinus has a spectacular aura aboutDelphinus has a spectacular aura aboutDelphinus has a spectacular aura about
Send a message via MSN to Delphinus
Default

That's probably more a function of that where Sam took these photos, Poipu and etc., are better for snorkeling on account that they are safer places to swim. There are many spots on Kauai where the shoreline and the waves are simply too treacherous and swimming is not recommended. I bet if you took a boat based dive trip you'd be able to see more reefs. I did some shore based dives in Kauai and did find some decent coral formations in spots but not to the same extent that you can find off Maui or the Big Island (and even Maui for that matter isn't exactly a coral hotbed. The Big Island, particularly around Kona-Kailua, has the most spectacular reefs, IMO, looking closer to our expectations, in this hobby, of what a reef "looks" like. The underground topography lends itself well there for better coral growth. One of the fellows on the boat when I did my dive trip there last year ran his own dive shop in Oahu but he told me he chooses to dive the Big Island when he himself takes vacation - I thought that was rather telling.)

In general though, if you look at a map, Hawaii is pretty much at the northern limit of the tropics and in fact the island chain that makes up the group continue well north of the topic line. It is also one of the most geographically isolated places anywhere surrounding by a LOT of ocean before the next land. For "tropical" water, at around 25-26c, it's on the cooler side of things (and a lot of the shoreline is, for lack of a better way to put it - "too new" - in geographic terms that lava hasn't been there very long). As such the coral formations around Hawaii are quite juvenile in comparison to places further south (think Fiji and so on), and the vast majority of species tend to be of the hardier varieties (what we would call "beginner SPS", like Porites, Pocilliporas, and so on).

Reefs or not, I absolutely adore all of Hawaii. Kauai has a charm all its own that you don't find on the other more heavily traveled islands.
__________________
-- Tony
My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!

Last edited by Delphinus; 02-03-2012 at 09:38 PM.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 11:42 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.