DiveMaven
Contributor
We come to Maui 4x per year, spending approximately 6-7 weeks on island each year. Although we come so often, we continue to book boat diving for each trip to be guaranteed some diving. This trip has been a perfect representation of why.
We arrived on island to rain, which continued on and off for another 2 days. It then took 2 days for inshore waters to be diveable due to extremely poor visabilty. We managed to shore dive one day, then spent a couple of days boat diving. Another front came whipping through, bringing viz down to 1' again, preventing any more shore diving for the rest of our trip. For this trip we weren't able to dive because of the weather, but in November we were skunked out of shore diving because of ocean swells. Heck, even Molokini wasn't diveable for 2 days.
These aren't isolated incidents and why I encourage folks to plan a combo of boat and shore diving.
Oh, the diving was great though.....2 tiny baby Frogfish, a manta ray, long nose hawkish, reticulated butterfly fish (juvenile too), large grey shark, mantis shrimp, lots of large Frogfish, and so much more....all while being serenaded by whale song.
We arrived on island to rain, which continued on and off for another 2 days. It then took 2 days for inshore waters to be diveable due to extremely poor visabilty. We managed to shore dive one day, then spent a couple of days boat diving. Another front came whipping through, bringing viz down to 1' again, preventing any more shore diving for the rest of our trip. For this trip we weren't able to dive because of the weather, but in November we were skunked out of shore diving because of ocean swells. Heck, even Molokini wasn't diveable for 2 days.
These aren't isolated incidents and why I encourage folks to plan a combo of boat and shore diving.
Oh, the diving was great though.....2 tiny baby Frogfish, a manta ray, long nose hawkish, reticulated butterfly fish (juvenile too), large grey shark, mantis shrimp, lots of large Frogfish, and so much more....all while being serenaded by whale song.