The yellow chub in this photo is actually a gray chub, but a few individuals, such as this one, can be yellow, white, or multicolored. This one is something of a regular at one spot on the North Kohala coast.
The orangespine unicornfish is seen in many places along the coast and always has a grumpy look. In this case, it looks like it’s upset that the chub has swum into its territory.
These quite large fish are commonly seen hanging in the water in small groups. When approached they will ease away without any apparent effort so that it’s difficult to get close enough for a good photo.
This one, however, displayed the same kind of curiosity chubs tend to have. It went by two or three times, clearly checking out the large, ungainly creature splashing around in the water, before deciding I wasn’t very interesting and moving away into deeper water.
Juvenile goatfish gather in quite large shoals close to shore. Sometimes they rest on the bottom, sometimes hang in the water. I like the formations they make as they hover above the sandy bottom, studded with coral and rocks.
I watched a trio of bullethead blennies zipping back and forth, apparently in some sort of territorial dispute. This one appeared to be the winner and when it rested, momentarily, on its laurels, I snapped this photo.
A small group of boldly-marked orangespine unicornfish putter in the shallows.
Shoals of little fish look like silver bullets zipping back and forth just below the surface of the water.
These three bluefin trevallies cruised by in shallow water and caught the sun so that it illuminated their blue coloring.
A bright-eye damselfish guards its territory, which includes this red pencil urchin, against intruders.
Graham's Island 