Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Sharks Cove minus the Sharks

Today was awesome. Woke up... ate breakfast... talked to Jo for a while. Went to Sharks Cove with my good friend Eric Minugh. We used his Canon 30D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm wide angle lens, all sealed up in a SPL waterhousing.

At first we just jumped in the water and hung out on the right side of the cove. There is a little cave about 15ft or so down.

Here I am diving down to it.
sharks cove dive 2

and here I am exiting
Me coming through the puka
It's a pretty good feeling to get to the floor and cruise under the reef and come up through it. Visibility wasn't too bad today too. Made for a pretty good summer underwater session. I have always wanted to get in the water here with a good camera and housing and see what I could come up with. Thanks Eric for letting me use your stuff today!

Here is a shot of Eric on the opposite side of the reef formation that has the small cave. I like to call it the Wave because of the curl towards the top.
Eric next to the Wave reef

another shot of me close to where Eric is in the last shot.

sharks cove dive

After we checked out things we moved to the outside far right of the cove where there is a underwater cave that everyone calls the "Blue Room." The first time I went through I was a kid and it freaked me out so I didn't do it again probably until I was in High School. I was going to hold the camera the first time through but I had no idea what to set the exposure to so I went through just to see what the light conditions were going to be. Turns out I was way underexposed.

What it really looks like going into the underwater cave

All the images I shot just came out black so I adjusted to make it work. We went through and this is what you see when you get to the other side.

Blue Room

Its just a tight space that you can sit up in. The view out of the cave back out to sea is much better so I made sure to get it right on the way out.

Eric in the "blue room"

I was so happy with this shot. Eric cruised just at the right speed for me to follow him with the camera.

Good fun. And then to make the day even better we had a friendly visitor. He/she let me get right up next to him/her ;-) I think this is my best turtle shot to date :-) Up until now I've used friends little point and shoots underwater.
Hawaiian green sea turtle at Sharks Cove

The turtle kept swimming where I didn't want to follow. The surge was a little to strong for me to want to follow it through the crack. There was sea urchins lining the walls.

the secret passage

overall great shoot. Thanks Eric again for cruising today.

Anyone wanna go here with me? Im willing to go again!
sharks cove rinse
aloha

8 comments:

Lea Tame said...

Aaron, your pictures are amazing! Hawaii is beautiful... hope you are having a fabulous time at home!

Anonymous said...

great post, your photos from that day are insane. i cant wait till im back on the NS, im definitely heading to sharks cove.

aaron eskaran said...

thanks guys!

and let me know when you come Morgan. ME you and Eric should really get toether

Skeg8 said...

wow Aaron, now you made me miss Hawaii. Here I am sitting on a train in Tokyo and you throw these amazing ocean shots at me. Really impressive stuff!

I am sure there is somewhere with beautiful ocean in japan, now all I need to do is find it...

Keep taking these inspiring photos and one day you will end up living your dreams man.

Ok, back to work...

aaron eskaran said...

thanks Tim!

glad you liked them :-) Must be cool to see them on an iPhone in Japan. haha

There are nice places in Japan!
Okinawa! And Kyushu and Wakayama and Mie-Ken.

I guess all of Japan! Good to hear from you brah.

Oscarson Photography said...

Enough to make me look for work back over there. I want back. Great shots.

Unknown said...

wow. those pictures are amazing!! gorgeous photos! I love the turtle one!!

Anonymous said...

Hey Aaron!
Glad we found you on here! Luv all your pics! You're so talented with the camera!