Posts in Maui Snorkeling Guides
Maui Snorkeling Guide: Nahuna (aka Turtle Town)

Nahuna is a marine life magnet where seemingly everything is possible. Hawaiian green sea turtles are the most notable draw (as this is the site of the original “turtle town”), but you can also see a large variety of reef fish, lobsters, nudibranchs, eagle rays, bottlenose dolphins, manta rays, slate pencil urchins, and eels.

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Lanai Snorkeling Guide: Hulopo'e Beach Park

Our flagship tour, Discover Lana’i, begun 46 years ago when Trilogy was founded, takes delighted guests to the private island of Lana’i, where you can snorkel, hike, and take a guided cultural history tour of the Pineapple Island.

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Maui Snorkeling Guide: Molokini Crater

Molokini Crater is—without a doubt—one of the best places to snorkel on Maui!

Every visitor to Maui should include a Molokini snorkeling tour on their list of Maui activities. The water here is clear as gin, and teems with over 250 species of Hawaiian marine life and fish.

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Maui Snorkeling Guide: Honolua Bay

If you’re joining us for our Discover Ka’anapali snorkel excursion departing from the world-famous Ka’anapali Beach, there’s a good chance you will be swimming in the beautiful bay of Honolua, on Maui’s West Side!

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Maui Snorkeling Guide: Namalu Bay (Cliff House)

Summer is the best time of the year for snorkeling at Namalu Bay, particularly early in the mornings before the tradewinds have picked up. What makes Namalu such a unique location, however, is how the inside of the cove is tucked out of the wind, and even on days when the tradewinds are blowing Namalu offers a protected, lee shore where we can escape the wind.

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Maui Snorkeling Guide: Olowalu Reef

Olowalu is beautiful during the winter months when the surf at Honolua Bay is far too large or when the winds at Molokini Crater are too strong. Since Olowalu is on a south-facing shoreline it’s protected from the large surf which crashes into the north shore during the winter,

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Lanai Snorkeling Guide: Kaunolu Bay (Shark Fin)

Good for seeing: Parrotfish, octopus, large schools of reef fish, pyramid butterfly fish, and the world’s second tallest-sea cliffs. Kaunolu has two different snorkeling areas, “the bay”, and “the fin”, which is a rock shaped like a shark’s dorsal fin that has earned the area the nickname of “shark fin cove”. Both areas are deeper than many of our other snorkeling spots, and due to its location there can be occasional sightings of manta rays, eagle rays, spinner dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, or even the occasional whale shark!

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Are there sharks here? Yes, they live in the ocean.

As the catamaran approaches Molokini crater and I peer down into the crystal clear turquoise water I tell the guests, “This is going to be a great day for snorkeling”. Questions about fish, coral, and marine life start to be asked and inevitably someone will ask, “Are there sharks here”? My response is always, “Yes, they live in the ocean”.

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Trilogy III Discover Ka'anapali

A voyage to Molokaʻi is extremely rare due to wind and wave conditions in the channel between the two islands. Every now and then, however, perhaps once a year, the wind and waves settle down enough to make the trek. Right away it was easy to see how this was a mini Molokini; crescent in shape, but teeming with marine life. 

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