FeliciaLynn
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I went diving in Maui back in February and I just got done processing all the photos, so I figured I'd share some of them 
Scuba Mala Pier
This was the first dive we did and was in the Lanai harbor along an old shipping pier that had collapsed and now is the home to a nice reef.
View of the city of Lahaina on the Northwest coast of Maui. The dive shop we booked through was based out of there and Mala pier is sunk in the Lahaina harbor.
Seaturtle! We saw tons of these throughout our dives.
Frogfish! Apparently these guys have a very specific territory and the dive masters that lead the dives usually know right where to find each individual one.
Mating nudibranchs. These guys are my alltime favorite macro subjects, so I was thrilled to see some in Hawaii.
Slipper lobster
And for us reef nerds, here are some shots of the corals growing on the sunken pier.
Scuba Lanai
We did two dives off the coast of Lanai, which is a privately owned island off the northwest coast of Maui. The first dive was in and around some lava tubes and the second dive was inside a lava cavern system called 2nd Cathedral. Its called a cathedral because they're these large, grand caverns that when you're inside and the sunlight is shining down through the openings, it looks like the sun shining through the stained glass windows in a cathedral.
The coast of Lanai
Our diveboat
Me!
Inside 2nd Cathedral
A black coral tree that hangs from the ceiling in the entrance to 2nd Cathedral. Divers call it the chandelier.
Tunicates
Crown of thorns starfish
Big moray eel
Tiger cowry
Scuba Molokini Crater
Molokini crater is created from the rim of an extinct volcano that has mostly sunk under the water. It creates a protected area out in open water for a thriving reef. Its a nature preserve, so the reef here was very pristine. These were some deeper divers at around 75 feet, so the photos came out more blue.
Molokini Crater
Look at all that coral!
And tons of fish! I was having so much fun identifying so many aquarium species. We even saw a flame angel. They're super rare in Hawaii and our dive master said she sees one on about 1 out of every 50 dives.
The cool thing is that Molokini Crater is out in open water, so at the edge of the reef it just drops off to super deep open ocean. Lots of bigger fish can be seen along the edges of the crater. Heres a big barracuda
Moray eel
White tip reef shark
Beautiful coral
View of the bottom of our dive boat during my safety stop after my dives.
On the way back to Lahaina, we had a mother humpback with her baby and escort come right up to the boat. They actually rubbed against the edge of the boat and when they came to the surface we actually got misted with the water they shoot from their blowhole. We saw so many humpbacks jumping about 100 yards off the boat too! I was too distracted watching to worry about photography, but here's one shot of humpbacks tail just off the back of our boat.
And a video from diving. Turn up the volume to hear the humpback whales singing
Scuba Mala Pier
This was the first dive we did and was in the Lanai harbor along an old shipping pier that had collapsed and now is the home to a nice reef.
View of the city of Lahaina on the Northwest coast of Maui. The dive shop we booked through was based out of there and Mala pier is sunk in the Lahaina harbor.
Seaturtle! We saw tons of these throughout our dives.
Frogfish! Apparently these guys have a very specific territory and the dive masters that lead the dives usually know right where to find each individual one.
Mating nudibranchs. These guys are my alltime favorite macro subjects, so I was thrilled to see some in Hawaii.
Slipper lobster
And for us reef nerds, here are some shots of the corals growing on the sunken pier.
Scuba Lanai
We did two dives off the coast of Lanai, which is a privately owned island off the northwest coast of Maui. The first dive was in and around some lava tubes and the second dive was inside a lava cavern system called 2nd Cathedral. Its called a cathedral because they're these large, grand caverns that when you're inside and the sunlight is shining down through the openings, it looks like the sun shining through the stained glass windows in a cathedral.
The coast of Lanai
Our diveboat
Me!
Inside 2nd Cathedral
A black coral tree that hangs from the ceiling in the entrance to 2nd Cathedral. Divers call it the chandelier.
Tunicates
Crown of thorns starfish
Big moray eel
Tiger cowry
Scuba Molokini Crater
Molokini crater is created from the rim of an extinct volcano that has mostly sunk under the water. It creates a protected area out in open water for a thriving reef. Its a nature preserve, so the reef here was very pristine. These were some deeper divers at around 75 feet, so the photos came out more blue.
Molokini Crater
Look at all that coral!
And tons of fish! I was having so much fun identifying so many aquarium species. We even saw a flame angel. They're super rare in Hawaii and our dive master said she sees one on about 1 out of every 50 dives.
The cool thing is that Molokini Crater is out in open water, so at the edge of the reef it just drops off to super deep open ocean. Lots of bigger fish can be seen along the edges of the crater. Heres a big barracuda
Moray eel
White tip reef shark
Beautiful coral
View of the bottom of our dive boat during my safety stop after my dives.
On the way back to Lahaina, we had a mother humpback with her baby and escort come right up to the boat. They actually rubbed against the edge of the boat and when they came to the surface we actually got misted with the water they shoot from their blowhole. We saw so many humpbacks jumping about 100 yards off the boat too! I was too distracted watching to worry about photography, but here's one shot of humpbacks tail just off the back of our boat.
And a video from diving. Turn up the volume to hear the humpback whales singing
