Photo: Andrew meets Honu
About every other Perseid meteor shower my friend Andrew from back east of America stops by for a visit. This Perseid shower coincided with my birthday! We decided to snorkel Electric Beach since Kini and I have had several great times there. This time we were in for a surprise.
Photo: Andrew and Kini
Almost as soon as we were in the water Kini spotted a turtle, Honu. We began to follow the Honu around. Honu had no concern about us, and went about his feeding. We on the other hand wanted to get a photo with the honu. Not really to difficult as Honu was unconcerned with us.
Photo: Get some air
Photo: Like this Andrew
Andrew is not used to modeling for an underwater shoot, so it took some practice to get everything set up.
Photo: Yeah!
After chasing the Honu all over the reef, we were ready to start floating around watching the fish.
Photo: Fishball
Photo: Reeflife
Unexpectedly, we came across a mother monk seal and her pup. For me this was a birthday gift! The pup was playing with his mother. He would swim up to his mother an poke her and they would twist around each other.
Photo: Mother monk seal and pup
The seal pup suddenly was curious to check me out! Face to face.
Photo: Hey! The look.
Hey seal pup strike a pose for the photoshoot!
Photo: Monk bodyscape
I was so delighted by my mini moment seal photshoot that I even made a selfie! Crazy!
That might explain the strange look on the pups face.