Summer Profile Pics

Loving Kealakekua Bay!

Floating.  Hawaiian waters: no neoprene!

Total lack of self-consciousness.  

NorCal Neoprene: armored against the cold.

Mendocino.

Studio time:
Matt & Mateo.

Archery lessons in the Gold Country.

Face your inner fish?
Foggy free diving on the Sonoma Coast; I brought a friend.
Two pursuits converge with a smile.

Hawaii: Above and Below

No tricks:  I snapped the top shot, held my breath and dove down, and snapped the bottom shot.

Reprise: Dusk Swimming

Dusk swimming:
Kealakekua Bay--out off Manini Beach.
Big Island, HI.

End of July, 2013.

The top photo just may be my favorite of 2013, of the shots I've taken.

What Fish Is This?

White-spotted pufferfish, actually.

Identification courtesy of Jeff Peterson.

In the photos for pufferfish in the two Hawaiian fish books I had looked at, the specific striations and coloration did not seem as clear as they did in person and in this photo, particularly.  An online search found photos that matched more obviously.

Sub-Surface Sequence: Hawaii

(I'm borrowing part of my title from an excellect dive shop in Ft. Bragg, CA: Sub-Surface Progression.)

Blue Man

I love free diving.

Shallow Longings

Sunbeams illuminating the water:
Kealakekua Bay--or Ahihi Bay?  Now, I can't recall exactly.

Years and years ago.

A fish's POV.

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