Octopus Encounter

This was NOT our dinner. Last weekend we visited Maui to meet up with J/N and enjoy some snorkeling there. When we entered the water at the beach by our hotel, we were amazed at the beauty of the colorful, pristine coral, a flavor different from what we usually see when snorkeling on Oahu. And we saw an octopus for the first time! Very exciting. This picture is not of the guy we saw, but one we took later when we visited the Maui Ocean Center, a nice aquarium with lots of Hawaiian fish. The coolest part was a water tunnel you could walk under with huge manta rays flapping/swimming right above you. This greatly increased H's desire to swim alongside manta rays on Big Island, but I think it had the opposite effect for me. The manta rays were very cool but a bit scary...