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Heading into the water. I'm already there.
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Damn... we look pretty trick, dontchathink? (I'm the Shamu looking one on the right.)
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Frank (right) tells Perry where to go. Lots of people tell Perry where to go. Even me, sometimes. Even Maria, more than me.
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PMJ Photo. All the best ones are.
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PMJ with a telephoto lens from thirty-five feet away.
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Perry stands on his head underwater. I can't even put my head under water.
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PMJ
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A clam by anyother name is a PMJ clam.
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Perry got this coral shot for Maria. She's a purple kinda gal.
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Perry and the undersea dwellers.
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These cool urchins were around the rocks at P_Bay.
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The turtle took this photo of Perry from almost thirty feet.
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Maria knows how much I like schools of fish. This is the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. All they do is puncture. They are not accu.
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It is just amazing how the telephoto lens makes the apparent distance between turtle and human seem so close. 35 feet was a long way away.
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This is recess. They go run around in circles. The leave the needles at home.
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Boy, Perry takes "going down" to a new depth.
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PMJ.
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PMJ photo.
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Someday there will be a story about getting too close to the turtle who turned left. Not today, however. There's a law against stupidity.
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Don't get too close to them. They are protected by Sarah Palin and a speargun toting mob.
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There are a quarter-ton of turtles in A-Bay, our "home port".
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Bad visibility but peaceful.
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I spent a day at Hanauma Bay alone with the fish.
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Gosh... this even scared the poop outa me! Sorry.
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Our undersea adventurer surfaces.
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Perry in fine form.
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This is the best turtle photo we got. Considering that the visibility sucked and we were about 30 feet away using a telephoto lens, it's great!
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A turtle in the distance.
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A trip to Hawaii wouldn't be complete without a visit with
Kim and Olga Sweeney. We spent an evening with them at a fine restaurant in
Hawi (the town that the Ironman turns around in for the
last half of the bike ride). A few days later we went to visit
Kim at the Keck Admin building where he works. We got the tour. Perry was
impressed. We went to dinner at a very nice restaurant with live music
behind the food. The photos include pictures of the group as well as the
Keck tour.
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Our only group photo from the trip. I think we look teriffic!
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Kim checks a poster for tomorrow's open house.
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Kim taught me the value of dual monitors when working with Photoshop. He also showed me the rubber stamp tool.
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This is the observation room for the telescope.
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This is the desk that astronomers view the stars from.
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This is the video link to the telescope controller who sits up on the mountain. We are in the little screen at the bottom right.
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Kim is pointing to his house, which is not visible from space.
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DJ and Kim take a break from the action.
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