Whale Meditation

Whale MeditationJohn happened upon this Humpback Whale at Molokini Crater. It floated silently, perpendicular to the surface as if it were meditating. This was our very first whale encounter! We were actually leading two groups of divers at a normal dive site and luckily came across this huge whale just resting vertically like this. We have now been swimming with whales for over 10 years and have never seen this behavior again. Pacific Humpback Whale Molokini Crater,

the Cesere Brothers capture Maui’s sunsets in a way that feels fluid

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a is the Hawaiian name for this trigger fish and it means “fish with a pig nose”

Many of you met us or at least have seen us under the Banyan Tree in Lahaina

I was camped out to get some turtles

The Milky Way - Lightning storm - Maui

Poke's Back and he's better than ever

We have a lot of turtles on Maui but you don't actually see them up on the beach very often

It floated silently

or Peahi as it's called here on Maui

These enormous rays come into the shallows and circle over certain patches of reef where cleaner fish live

One morning

An up close and personal account with Nino the crocodile in Cuba