Here We Go Again

I've been video editing again - I'm still Getting Stuff Done! Some of it. There's a lot that I'm not getting done, but little steps...



A night dive at Makena Beach Landing in Maui. This was a lovely shore dive, with a wide variety of fish, some turtles and two species of free-swimming moray eels. It's always fantastic to see how different some of the fish species look at night, and the cornetfish that changes from plain to banded as we watched was fabulous. And never underestimate the appeal of a slipper lobster!

The amount of video still unedited from the Cuba trip remains daunting, so I decided to tackle something easier and deal with the footage from diving on Maui, which comes in smaller quantities. At least that way I feel like I'm achieving something!



Mala Pier is a collapsed concerete pineapple loading dock which can be dived as either a shore dive or a boat dive. We dived it on an overcast day with Maui Dreams dive charters - the visibility was poor by Maui standards (good by Puget Sound standards!), especially at the start of the dive, but it improved.

The site has great artificial structure, a wide variety of fish species and a cleaning station where the turtles line up waiting their turn for the fish to eat the algae off them. Conflict can occur between equally oblivious divers and turtles! Watch out for the bluespine unicornfish at 1.57 and the Commerson's frogfish at 2.46.