Maui-Part 1

We flew to Maui on Thursday morning and spent most of Thursday day looking around part of the island, getting checked into our hotel in Lahaina and relaxing on the beach near our hotel.

 

 

On Friday we went out on a boat to scuba dive (James and I) and snorkel (Pentti and Amy).

We caught an Ono fish on the way to the crater.

 

Molokini Crater

We did two dives that day. The first was at Molokini Crater called Reef's End.  We had 100 foot visibility and saw lots of fish, a white tipped reef shark, eels, sea cucumbers and so much more.

 

The highlight of the day was THE biggest fish I have EVER seen while diving.  It was a whale shark that was about 30 feet in length.  It looked like a billboard as it slowly cruised past us.  You can't tell from the picture how big this fish was. He was about 30 feet away from us.  PS. This shark eats plankton so we were not in any danger...

 

                              Maija

                                     
James

   

Pentti and Amy

The second dive was at Canyon Lands which is close to the shore of Kihie.  The highlight in this area are the HUGE green sea turtles.  We saw so many of them that I lost count.  There must have been at least 30 in the area.  Most of them were around 6 feet long and some were 65 years old.   They would swim around us and one of them actually kicked me when I got too close to it (by accident).

 

 

  James near the turtle

That night we had a really beautiful sunset.

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