Sunday, February 03, 2008
Hawaii Scuba diving near Waikiki Hotels at Haunama Bay peacock flounder
This is a great video of peacock flounder that I shot at Haunama Bay near Waikiki in Honolulu. Haunama Bay is one of the best scuba diving sites in Hawaii it is only done as a shore dive. Haunama Bay is a protected reserve and so you will see fish and turtles and they don't spook very easy compared to other dive sites in Hawaii.
Haunama Bay is a partially collapsed volcano cone. As a protected area you get many different fish species in one place. Haunama Bay is a great way to spend a day for really cheap. Waikiki Hotels will help you to get there by Honolulu the bus or they can give you directions for your rental car and there is lots of parking that is not a budget buster.
I love to find peacock flounders and show them to other divers as they are so unique. When they are young both the eyes are like all the other fish one on each side, as they get older one eye migrates towards the other, so that both eyes are up. The flounder lays on the sand in ambush and waits for dinner to come to it. The camouflage also protects it from being eaten itself.
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