Rainbow Wrasse

Sorry for the hiatius, I’ve been very busy with my day job.

I was even working over the weekend, but we still had time to go snorkeling down in Poipu. We went to Beach House beach where there are always so many fish to see. There are two things I like there: the Beach House restaurant is gracious enough to let people lay on their manicured lawn under the palm trees, which keeps down the amount of sand we carry back to the car and the house, and while it’s reputation attracts a crowd, we almost always see new fish.

Yesterday’s new fish was the rainbow wrasse, called hinalea by the Hawaiians. The only picture I could find on the internet is from the “marine aquarium trade,” but it is almost exactly what we saw:

Photo credit: reefkeeping.com

P.S. I just recieved an underwater digital camera for (early) Christmas, so I will soon be taking these pictures myself, I hope.

Quick Sunrise Post

I’ve been a bit slow with the posts lately, so here is some easy but beautiful filler. This sunrise was already in full swing when the alarm went off this morning, and fortunately the colors lasted long enough for me to wake up and run down and get the camera.

I’ll be honest with you: I had to edit the colors on this photo by toning them down. Our camera underexposes bright skies like this, and the photo is much more saturated than reality. So I lightened up all the colors to make it as close to what I remember seeing with my eyes.