We scheduled and participated in Pride of Maui's Molokini Snorkel Tour & Turtle Town Snorkel Tour. We SNUBA dived and snorkeled at Molikini and then snorkeled again at "Turtle Town." We tended to use the GoPro more for video than photographs during these activities, but there are a few photographs that will be included in this post.
Molokini is one of my favorite places to snorkel because you combine protected waters (the water inside the crater ridge can be relatively calm) with a large number of different species of fish living near the crater. The water clarity at Molokini is often excellent because there is no sand beach for sand to be stirred up.
Although one can see Molokini from Maui's shore, a boat ride is required to get from Maui to Molokini.
The biggest drawback to Molokini is its popularity, which leads to lot of boats and people in the same relatively small space. I found, though, that most people just bobbed in the water neared their anchored boats and I was largely on my own when I snorkeled near the crater itself. Because that's where most of the fish are anyway, it worked out fairly well.
We participated in the SNUBA diving for 20 minutes while at Molokini and enjoyed the opportunity to go under water about 20 feet and enjoy the large schools of fishes and clear water. There were more varieties of species of fish near the crater, but large schools of the same species of fish could be seen better when SNUBA diving.
We departed Molokini for "Turtle Town," where we snorkeled and watched some turtles. The water in Turtle Town was less clear than at Molokini and we saw far fewer fish (number of fish or number of species of fish), but it was interesting to watch a couple of turtles swimming around.
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