| Lahaina is a tender-port
meaning the harbor is too shallow for most cruise ships,
which must anchor off shore and use tenders (the ship's
life boats) to transport people to the dock. |
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| Chip
does not like snorkling and took a ride on the Atlantis
submarine instead. The bottom picture is the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a.
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The catamaran on which Dale and I sailed to Olowalu on
the West Maui Snorkel tour. |
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| Dale wearing the
digital camera snorkel masks we got specifically for taking
underwater shots while snorkling on the cruise. The camera-mask
idea was better than the execution on these
masks - it was difficult to get good pictures. The (no-sound)
video button is located beside the shutter button. You
are supposed to be able to see which is "on"
while wearing the mask by way of a red or blue light located
above the right eye - but, while I saw those lights when
sitting in my living room, I couldn't see them while wearing
the mask outdoors in the water. And the red button is
also the On/Off button when held down for 2 seconds. So
in the water, wearing the mask, I was doing a lot of guessing
as to whether the camera was on or off and still or video.
On top of that, lining up the shots is tricky - there
are crosshairs on the goggle lenses but they are about
2 inches below the camera lens, which means close up shots
won't line up - whatever it is you are photographing will
look like it's in the center when you use the crosshairs
but be low, even out of the picture, in the resulting
picture. It took a lot of practice to figure out. Eventually
we got the hang of it but not soon enough to get any underwater
photos on this snorkel trip. |
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