Molokini is not a swimming pool with fish in it. The crater sits inside the Molokini Shoal Marine Life Conservation District, 77 acres of no-take water managed under Hawai’i Administrative Rules Chapter 13-31. On top of it, the 23-acre islet is a State Seabird Sanctuary. No landing. No anchoring outside the permitted day-use moorings. No…
Maui Snorkeling Safety: The Direct Answer First Four things send first-time snorkelers to Maui emergency rooms: exhaustion, panic, untreated sun exposure, and gear that does not fit. Sharks sit well down that list, and we deal with them properly on our Safety & Shark Facts page rather than reheating the argument here. Now the part…
Ask ten people on a Kihei boat ramp when to snorkel Maui and you’ll collect ten answers, most of them wrong. The honest version is shorter. Maui has two superb snorkelling windows, mid-April to early June and mid-September to late October, and everything outside those two stretches is a negotiation between water temperature, trade winds,…