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Sandwich Isle WatersA photographic record of the Kona coast, from the reef to the open blue

Room 04

Seasons and conditions

Water temperature, swell, visibility, humpback season and the spawning nights that fill the reef with fish.

Season: Nov to Apr

02pieces in this room, the latest hung on 18/09/2026

A six-passenger dive boat idling at dawn off the Kona coast, a humpback blow rising a hundred yards off the bow, the captain watching from the rail with binoculars, flat leeward water and Mauna Loa in the background. — Inv. SC-002 The whole print and a detail cropped from the same print: Humpback Season on the Kona Coast.

Detail cropped from the same print: A six-passenger dive boat idling at dawn off the Kona coast, a humpback blow rising a hundred yards off the bow, the captain watching from the rail with binoculars, flat leeward water and Mauna Loa in the background. — Inv. SC-002 The whole print and a detail cropped from the same print: Humpback Season on the Kona Coast.

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The rest of the room

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Inv. SC-001 · Room 04

Reading Swell and Wind Before the Boat Leaves

What wind and swell tell a captain before the boat clears the harbor, and how the same read of broken water works on a fly river.

Hung on 15/09/2026 · Season: Nov to Apr