Best time of year

[del_mo]

The Mrs. and I will be celebrating our 30 anniversary in 2007 and we are thinking about returning to Hawaii to relive our honeymoon, with a couple of exceptions-our passions have changed. While we were married in June, we have no strong tie to the actual date (getting the feeling yet that the anniversary part is just an excuse to go back to Hawaii to dive?), we would rather go when the conditions are best, if there is a best.

Any thoughts?

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

For shore diving late spring and summer is great. My wife and I celebrated our 30th on the backwall of Molokin off Mauii with B&B Scuba. Brad video taped it for us and I presented my wife with a little bracelet I knew she wanted a bit past 100 feet. Who looks at your depth guage when you're making out anyway

May and early June have few tourists. Easy to get on the boats and easy to find parking.

 

[Mantasscareme]

I dove Kona in July once and visited Maui in December a few years back before I was certified (I did a resort course there and got certified shortly after). Air temperatures were about the same, but the water was a lot colder in December. There was rain on all ten days of the July Kona trip, but it didn't effect diving in the least. The rain always hit in the afternoon, several hours after I'd wrapped up my diving for the day. Weather in Hawaii seems to be really localized for the most part. A little further north from where I was staying, in the Waikiloa area, they had ten days of dry weather, and an entire year without rain before that. There was only one day of rain on Maui over the ten days I was there in December. That probably has more to do with geography than time of year though. Anyway, a little rain never hurt anybody