We have stayed in Kihei a number of times and I have to admit we have never been to the Kam parks. We always seem to end up at Ulua, Makena Surf, Maui Prince, Big Beach, etc.... We also always take one day for Hana and another to head up to Lahaina and Kanapali.
Snorkeling is big for us, so are we making a big mistake by passing by the Kam parks?
Kameole Beach Parks
Absolutely.
The northerly headland of Kamaole III park offers a good to excellent near-shore snorkeling opportunity.
It is very similar to the formation at Ulua Beach Park in Wailea..easy to egress from a gentle beach in an improved park, swimming over a sandy bottom alongside a rock/reef wall, with a relativey shallow reef formation extending from the headland into deeper water.
It is best early in the AM as the sun comes over Haleakala, with maximum visibility, low turbidity and generally calm conditions. Typically in the PM the winds, waves and sand kick up.
Normally the fish are bountiful, but this reef does seem to have some seasonality in the species and count from time to time.
The inexperienced should be wary of swimming over the shallow reef portion during even moderate surf conditions. Its real easy to get banged around between the outcroppings by the surge, which is not good for a body or the coral.
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