12:11am, the next day - I took some jaw dropping shots today -- a PERFECT end to this trip. :) The morning started out with a run down to Lanai with Maui Dive Shop. We dove "Monolith" and "White Hill" (aka "No-name Paradise"), and saw, at 120', some Hawaiian Longfin Anthias, which are apparently a very rare endemic species of anthias. I was very narc'ed from nitrogen narcosis at that depth, and I rather enjoyed its overpowering ringing silence. :) In the late afternoon, we headed out again for dusk and night dives at Molokini crater. The dusk dive presented us with a fairly normal sized manta ray (6-8' wingspan) circling around a cleaning station, and because Dave and I jumped in so early, we got him to ourselves for fifteen minutes before the other 15 divers splashed into the pool. By the end of the dive, many small gray reef sharks and white-tip reef sharks had gathered, and were circling the mooring line and the boat. Some of the grays even came up to the surface to investigate floating objects, which apparently is unheard of. :) After a glorious sunset (the day itself was glorious, too. the sky was a perfect blue textured by a few puffy clouds, and it was so clear that we could see the snow on top of Mauna Kea -- on the Big Island -- from Lanai!), we descended into the darkness wielding cameras and bright dive lights. It was the best night dive I've ever been on. :) Eight oval squid hovered near the bottom of the mooring line, which kept me busy for the entire dive. However, when I did happen to look up, gray and white-tip reef sharks were almost literally everywhere. Jerry was bumped three times by a 5' white-tip, and Aldo even managed to record it on video. :)

The raw, unedited Canon D60 images are spectacular.

Coral, at 120'	Male Hawaiian Longfin Anthias - very rare, at 120' at Monolith, Lanai
Longnose Butterflyfish	Crown of Thorns, closeup
Wire Coral Goby, on a Wire Coral	Smalltail wrasse harem
Scrawled Filefish	Scrawled Filefish
Scrawled Filefish	David Fleetham
View of Maui from boat	School of bannerfish at Molokini dusk dive (thanks to Robert S Haan for ID)
David Fleetham, with camera	Gray reef shark
Manta ray, at Molokini	Gray reef shark
Me and David Fleetham	8 Oval Squid at Molokini!
Oval Squid	Oval Squid
Oval Squid	Oval Squid
Oval Squid	Oval Squid
Oval Squid	Oval Squid
Oval Squid	Oval Squid with shrimp rider
Oval Squid	Oval Squid
Tube Anemone	Tube Anemone, feeding on little shrimp