When we are out snorkeling here in Hawai‘i, we all see hard stony coral that has different colors. Coral is made up of a hard…
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A Category 5 hurricane hit the western end of the northwest Hawaiian Islands a few years back and the sea reclaimed several small coral atolls.…
Fish that evolved on our coral reefs here in Hawai‘i all have predators that may eat them, but they recognize the predators and normally only…
Omilu, the bluefin trevally, gets quite large and is one of the top predator fish on the Hawaiian coral reef and it often hunts small…
Hawai‘i has more than 15 jellyfish species that float around our islands and sometimes show up on our beaches. The box jellyfish is a small…
The hawksbill sea turtles are very rare and critically endangered here in Hawai‘i. There are thought to be less than 300 adult breeding females in…
While scuba diving many years ago at 80 feet deep off Kaua‘i South Shore, we found a huge lobster just sitting on the bottom in…
We have native seahorses here in Hawai‘i, but they are quite rare. But in other Pacific islands, like the Philippines, they are super common. I…
Hawai‘i is a special group of islands because we are in the middle of the sea and lack barrier reefs. Our islands are relatively new…
Tunnels reef on the North Shore of Kaua‘i is very unique, as it is a sunken volcanic caldera that is part on land and part…