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03-14-2008, 05:51 AM
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Nice pics! I love Hawaii, just seeing those underwater pics makes me nostalgic. The best part of Haunauma is definately getting out past where the waves break (the hard part to swim through), then you get 30-some odd feet deep with the giant red pencil urchins and some okay coral. Lotsa turtles and big parrotfish.... the shallow part is neat but the deep is the way to go! Even right off waikiki we saw some pretty awesome stuff, not too much coral though. We saw some wicked colored coral up on the north shore, but the big waves there in the winter limit most corals to the encrusting kind.
Cool school of butterflies, we didnt see too many of them. The best coral growth I've personally seen was in the Cook Islands, but even then it isnt nessecarily well known for its coral. I can't wait to get to Raja Ampat. One day.... *dreams*  -Diana 
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03-14-2008, 02:54 PM
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Thanks for the info guys....I knew there where great numbers of fish....just thought there would be more life on the rocks.
Fiji is where the wife and I want to go.
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03-14-2008, 06:46 PM
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Yeah the days that we were at Hanuama Bay the waves were pretty big, so the lifeguards were not allowing anybody to go in to the deeper areas. Nonetheless, to see these beautiful fish up so close that you could touch them, is absolutely breath taking.
It is rather dissappointing to see how badly the reef itself has been damaged by careless visitors how stand on and destroy the corals.
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