It was a cloudy morning, low tide, and the ocean was calm.
But there was a lot going on out there.
In this first photo, it looks like a quiet morning. But note the areas where the smooth surface of the water is disturbed. That’s a big school of small fish in the shallow near-shore water.
What kind of fish? You’ll have to find a fisherman who can answer that question.
But a predator–presumably a larger fish–arrived looking for breakfast, sending the smaller fish into a frenzied escape mode.
I’ve enlarged a section of the second photo so that you can easily see the fish leaping out of the water to escape becoming breakfast.
Just another early morning walk on the beach in Kahala.
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Lovely.
How neat…
Seeing sudden enormous swarms of fish — especially if you’re in the water — is an incredible experience. It’s a reminder that there is still life on this planet, not just plastic, phones and cars. And it usually happens completely out of thin air — if there’s sharks out in the water, you almost never see them. They stay away from slow large apes.
Sardines or Nehu
Akule? Especially if that is Kaaawa. During baby akule run there were always fisherman bent over the water with slender poles.
Not Kaaawa. Kahala. Between the hotel and Wailupe.
3/2: I went very early and the water was still. The predator must have chased the school completely out of the area. Went at 6, walked the neighborhood and came back around 8 – nothing. Asked some fisherman that were there during my stroll away from the beach and they didn’t see anything.
Do you remember when you were there?
Thanks!