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LEHUA GARDENS 45' - 150' + Ad. large rock step formations. Large fishes,
Spectacular coral bottom. Spinner stingrays, eagle rays.
dolphins. Gray reef sharks. Many wrasse The North Shore has several dive sites and
amongst soft coral. Teardrop kayaking descriptions. Hanalei and the
butterflyfish.
Bali Hai area are so-o-o-o beautiful. What
KEY HOLE 0' - 80'+ Int – Adv Drift wall words can describe it? None, I guess. It is
dive. Packs of gray sharks, jacks, huge just so magnificent. Kee Beach, at the
schools of pyramid butterflyfish, black very end of the road is another favorite
durgon everywhere. Tubastraea corals. snorkel spot. However, I'm dubious about
Pelagic fish. scuba diving at Kee Beach. For one thing,
huge 50' surf came in around 1998 or 1999
PYRAMID POINT 0' - 130'+ Adv
Spectacular wall with cracks. Excellent and changed things a lot. Much sand and
snorkeling next to wall over stony coral silt filled in on top of the reef and the
beds. Variety of tropical fish everywhere. lagoon became much more shallow. It left
the shallows good for snorkeling, but kind
VERTICAL AWARENESS 35' - 350' of ruined the former glorious scuba
Adv Vertical topography descends very diving. Second, the currents outside the
deep. schools of tinkers butterflyfish in reef are so strong they can be treacherous.
the deep. Tiny Hawaiian anthias. Oversize A diver could find himself drifting for
blue cravelle (Ulua). miles and would never be able to get back.
NIIHAU ARCHES 20' - 50'+ Beg – Adv I'd hate to go for a delightful shore dive
Swim-through arches formed by swirled and simply disappear!
lava with sink holes and pinnacles. In the winter months this area is prone to
Whitetip reef sharks. Vertical wall nearby. some extremely powerful surf. The same
Popular with tours for scuba and waves that make the Oahu North Shore
snorkeling. the most famous surfing area in the world
LEHUA SLOPE 10' - 65' Beg – Adv also crash into the Kauai North Shore and
Tucked in right below Lehua's steep the Na Pali Coast. I was there for one of
volcanic slope. Popular place for tour these biggest-waves-of-the-year events
boats to take snorkelers and scuba divers. one January. The faces on the waves and
Subject to strong currents. Eagle rays. the sounds of it were so scary that you
Pelagic species. Whale sharks. would be crazy to even stand on the sand,
anywhere on the beach. I hiked the
STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN 50' - 180'+ famous Kalalau trail for a few miles that
Adv Blue water diving at pinnacle with day. From my vantage I could see that the
waves were immense and the crashes into
