Andonohana

Boats run the point only when the late-autumn window is open, and the ground you land on is straightforward: rock on one side, sand on the other, the two clearly divided, with the profile running between 15 and 23 m. Operators are direct that the terrain is not the reason to come. The draw is a single feature known as the original longfin grouper reef, where a large longfin grouper holds station inside a cloud of pajama cardinalfish and golden sweepers dense enough that the grouper is often the last thing you pick out.

The rest of the dive is searching. Worked carefully, the sand gives up Wheeler's shrimpgobies and, less often, angelsharks, while the rocky ground is loose boulder that shelves away to the north. The point is only in the rotation for that short late-autumn window, and the trade operators describe is exactly that: few chances to dive it, but a high rate of rare finds, animals that do not turn up elsewhere in Kushimoto.