Big Island Snorkeling Guide
Kapa'a Beach County Park
Extra Pictures Page
Here are some more pictures from our Big Island Snorkeling Tour of Kapa'a Beach County Park. If you missed the first page with snorkel descriptions and driving directions
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The water was very Tangy here. We saw these everywhere on the Big Island. Yellow Tangs are about 4 to 6 inches long, and eat algea off the coral and rocks.
Here is a Whiteline Triggerfish. This is a Humuhumu lei which is related to the more colorful Humuhumu nukunuku apua'a, the Hawaii state fish. This guy eats urchins, fish eggs, algea and other stuff.
I love seeing these for some reason. This is a young Bluefin Trevally. They can get up to two feet long, and have that stunning blue color. And you can barely make out a couple of Whitebar Surgeonfish in the right top of the picture.
This pic shows some of the interesting underwater topography and a big group of fish.
This is a beautiful Crown of Thorns Sea Star. They eat coral, which is interesting, because we did not see any coral here. So maybe they also eat something else??? I have read that these have some pretty nasty stingers, so you probably don't want to go petting them. But with a name like Crown of Thorns, that is probably a no-brainer. These are the only sea stars that eat coral, out of something like sixteen hundred different species of sea stars. This was pretty big, maybe a foot across.
And this is the infamous Happy Snorkeler (Nicole). She lives off beautiful sights, relaxation and fun adventures.
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