Nice pics! I love Hawaii, just seeing those underwater pics makes me nostalgic. The best part of Haunauma is definately getting out past where the waves break (the hard part to swim through), then you get 30-some odd feet deep with the giant red pencil urchins and some okay coral. Lotsa turtles and big parrotfish.... the shallow part is neat but the deep is the way to go! Even right off waikiki we saw some pretty awesome stuff, not too much coral though. We saw some wicked colored coral up on the north shore, but the big waves there in the winter limit most corals to the encrusting kind.
Cool school of butterflies, we didnt see too many of them.
The best coral growth I've personally seen was in the Cook Islands, but even then it isnt nessecarily well known for its coral. I can't wait to get to Raja Ampat. One day.... *dreams*
-Diana