Aloha,

There is a wall mural at the Hanauma Bay entrance. It is made of tiles and shows some of the marine life at Hanauma Bay. Hanauma has several meanings in Hawaiian. One meaning is curved shape which describes the bay.

Another meaning is arm wrestling, which is why the artist made some coral in the picture looking like arm wrestling. If you look at the water underneath the arms wrestling, you can see it is in the shape of a map of Oahu. Hanauma Bay is located on the south shore on the map. There is the Hawaii Trigger Fish pointing to Hanauma Bay. The Hawaii Trigger Fish is called Humuhumunukunukuapua'a in Hawaiian. It is a tongue twister.

I took this photo today of the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a today. The water was murky today. Winter time is the best time to taker photos at Hanauma Bay.

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I took this photo of a parrot fish today. The male parrotfish is one of my favorite fish to photograph. It is very colorful. It is also a tasty fish. I had two tours today. We spent most of the time in the inner reef. At the very end, we went outside the reef and one customer got sick from the waves and through up. We then came back inside. She was okay when we got out of the water. Some people get motion sickness in the water easily. We did not see any turtles. 

In the afternoon, we went t the outer reef and saw four turtles. Nobody got sick even though it was a little choppy. There were five people in the morning tour who had never been snorkeling. In the afternoon there were only two people and they had experience snorkeling. I enjoy working at Hanauma Bay. Everyday I take new people snorkeling from all over the world and the ocean conditions change everyday. I still find new things in the ocean that I have not seen. The first time I went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay was thirty years ago. It has changed a lot.