Swimming with a Honu

Honu - © Christopher Martin-4298

I went on a sailing trip up the Na Pali coast yesterday.  The morning was clear and we had a great trip with visits from a couple of separate pods of dolphins and a few humpback whales.  After turning around at the Kalalau Valley, the captain found us a calm cove and we had an hour to snorkel.  Halfway through the swim, I found a Green sea turtle fishing down in the coral.

Foraging Honu - © Christopher Martin-4230

–

Foraging Honu - © Christopher Martin-4220

I was about 30′ above it and just floated along watching it swim and explore.  After a few minutes, it surfaced and when it turned to me, I had a second to photograph it swimming.  Soon after with lungs full of fresh air, it descended again and soon disappeared into the blue.

The descent - © Christopher Martin-4307

This entry was posted on December 14, 2012 by . It was filed under Animals, Hawaii, Turtle, Wildlife and was tagged with , , , , , , , .

4 responses

  1. Rexlin Victor

    Great one!!!

    December 14, 2012 at 9:40 pm

    Reply
  2. lylekrahn

    Beautiful

    December 14, 2012 at 9:03 pm

    Reply
  3. janechese

    wow…that is really something to see.

    December 14, 2012 at 5:24 pm

    Reply
  4. Kim

    I miss that!

    December 14, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    Reply

Your comments are truly appreciated - thank you for visiting.

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.