2010-2-26  South to Lawai

  With the trade winds back, we spent much of the last week south.

 Ended up back at Lawai today.

A  rock mover wrasse getting a cleaning from the little purple and yellow cleaner wrasse.

 

a very healthy parrotfish

 school of convict tangs and ring tail surgeonfish

 male bird wrasse

 4 spot butterflyfish

 looking back towards shore

 emporer fish

 large red lip parrotfish

 There's a nice shallow reef here.  On the other side of the reef is an area where surfers often surf.

 There's also another little bay on that side where turtles often hang out.

I wandered over to check out the Koloa Heritage site down across the street from here.

 This is Prince Kuhio's Birthplace and a Park.

 He was a delegate to the US Congress for 19 years after Hawaii became a territory in 1900.

 I've always looked at it as we drove by, but this was the first time I walked around the park. It's a very nice memorial for Prince Kuhio.

  Then I headed back to Lawai beach and back to the fishies.

 a barred filefish

 2 different types of surgeonfish

 We decided to get out and dry off, then head to the Spouting Horn for sunset.

 These young men were standing on the ledge near where the spouting horn spouts.

 Again, doesn't look like the brightest thing to be doing!  At least there were no little kids with them this time!

 Wonder how often a really large rogue wave comes through?!

 On to sunset-----

 Not much in the way of clouds.  Good thing about that is we did see the "green flash".  Bad thing is not much color in the sky.

 a sunset cruise heading back to the little marina.

 and---done---

 The big news for the day was a tsunami heading our way.  An earthquake hit Chili a day or 2 ago.  So we wondered what tomorrow will bring!?