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.


and here I am exiting

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.


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



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.



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.



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.



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.


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.



overall great shoot. Thanks Eric again for cruising today.

Anyone wanna go here with me? Im willing to go again!

aloha