Saturday, September 10, 2011

NWHI-day 9 Gardner Atoll

What a day! We arrived at Gardner atoll at 0800 and it was our first full day in the water. These are the last islands protruding above the water and from this point it's all underwater. We did a few laps around the islands and we saw lots of fish!
Huge schools of nenue, opelu, omilus, knife jaws, mu's, and everything else was here. It was so cool to see so many tame uluas!

There some in the 80-100 lb range with many in the 40-60 lb range just swarming us. We saw some sharks, seals, and rays also. We were so happy to see fish we decided to skip lunch and dive all day till 1600 (4 pm). Can't wait for tomorrow!

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