Its better down where its wetter

I know that I am sadly no longer on Midway, but I still have a lot of pictures to share and stories to tell since I was busy actually working out there.

Probably the most exhilarating and exciting things that happened to me out there all happened underwater. The water out there is full of EVERYTHING you can imagine and dream of. I got to see so many things and here are just a few of the highlights:

The last rays of sun that had just enough strength to pierce through the water Eagle rays that decided to come and distract us for a while, we were busy doing a beach clean up and they stayed about 5-10 ft off shore for a good hour

Underneath the cargo pier was a hotspot for every giant and cool marine animal

The only lion fish I saw

I've already blogged about the dolphins, but it was pretty AMAZING

I found this huge starfish just washed up on North Beach one day

Almost everytime you would just walk over to the shore you had a 95% chance of seeing a turtle bobbing on the surface

I can only imagine how big the full lobster was. I found the top half on North Beach, it had been chewed on my a monk seal.

This was the best picture we got of the tiger shark we saw about 12 ft off shore one day while we were all just walking along the beach!

You can see how close he was to shore... and this was the beach where we swam!

This turtle we ran into one day has a disease called fibropapilloma, researchers don't know why turtles get it but you can see the huge tumors on the poor turtle's neck

No matter where you got in the water you would always run into huge schools of fish. Usually they were either goat or manini, these schools are manini

Pretty nudibranch

This is one of the huge ulua. There was always a school of about 5 or 6 underneath the cargo pier and the smallest one problably weighed 60 lbs and the biggest was around 90 lbs!

This video is of one of the monk seals that I got to swim with! I am still amazed that I actually did get to see and do all of this stuff

This is a video of an ulua the water here was around 4 ft, just so you can get an idea of how big these fish are with how much of the frame he takes up

I saved the best for last! For sure the coolest thing that I swam with was the 10ft manta rays! I really wanted to swim with them before I left, but it wasn't until the second to last week that someone spotted a group in the harbor. We had to wait until we got off of work so the lighting wasn't the best, but it was the coolest thing EVER!

Since it was dusk they started feeding, and it was so cool to see them go up and down in these huge circles!!!

Well life on Midway was certainly better down where it was wetter. I got to see, touch and swim with things that people pay a lot of money to do, plus some things that you can't even buy with money!