Baby Beach

I had the entire day off from work, and I spent most of it being lazy indoors.  Most of the island seems to be battling off a head cold, and I seem to have gotten it.  It's one of those annoying afflictions where it hasn't quite settled in to become a full fledged illness, but you still feel lethargic at all times and stuffed up at night.

By late afternoon, the light pouring over the ocean was too gorgeous to ignore, so I slowly gathered some gear together and pedaled to Baby Beach to catch some rays, read my book and FINALLY plunge my underwater camera in the ocean!

Baby Beach

Spotted Boxfish

These are some of my favorite fish!  I love spots!

I didn't notice the rainbow arching over Baby Beach until I looked at the photographs at home

Back under the water

Lagoon Triggerfish...but can you say it in Hawaiian? 

Humuhumu Nukunuku A Pua'a

Some guy had anchored these little boats in Baby Beach and was slowly dismantling them

For the shots featured in this post as well as the post covering my Christmas Party on Lanai, I am using the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS10, a water and shock proof camera given to me by my parents.

Thanks, Mom and Dad!

This camera takes AMAZING photographs!  It has a 14.1 megapixel resolution, which means the photographs capture enough detail to make poster-size prints.

It was so easy to use underwater, and I was really impressed with how well the photographs came out.  The only times I weren't happy with my underwater pictures probably had more to do with the way the light was streaming through the water and how much sand I was kicking up swimming around in about 3 feet of water.  The tide was WAY out today, but it wasn't going to stop me from dunking the camera underwater and snapping away!

I'm excited to go out and take more underwater photographs.  Hopefully in deeper water...I think my next excursion will be snorkeling around Black Rock in Ka'anapali!