Snorkeling Fanatics (Honolulu) - Advice Please!

My partner and I are maniac snorkelers - staying out all day except for lunch break but most experience is in Mexico/Belize/Caribbean. Guidebooks unclear about best places in Honolulu for winter months. Usually we book onto a dive tour as snorkelers - great locations, longer in the water, or we hire a boat for the day. HI much moe expensive, though, so it seems booking onto a dive tour best way. Assume local companies still do this in winter, but it%26#39;s unclear from info I%26#39;ve gathered so far. Any advice? Mahalo in advance from this malihini

Snorkeling Fanatics (Honolulu) - Advice Please!

Not exactly clear if you want snorkelling or diving tour but for snorkelling, I know of one place called Hanauma bay ... Great views too.

I%26#39;ve snorkelled and dove in Mexico and Caribbean but I find the fishes in Hanauma bay were much colourful, brighter, exotic and bigger...

Snorkeling Fanatics (Honolulu) - Advice Please!

Thanks for your response, G Explorer. What I meant by booking on dive tours as snorkelers is that in order to spend more than a half an hour in the water snorkeling on your average snorkel tour, we book ourselves onto a dive tour because they%26#39;re so much longer. The sites they go to are usually great for snorkeling, so we get to snorkel for quite a while, not to mention the great boat ride. You don%26#39;t pay the dive rate, of course, but you go to interesting places. Of course we%26#39;ll go to Hanauma Bay - it%26#39;s legendary! So maybe we can find out where the dive tours go this month in Honolulu and whether or not any of them would be just as interesting for snorkeling. We have shortie suits and inflatable life jackets and can%26#39;t wait to experience the Aloha spirit in beautiful Ohahu! Mahlao in advance for any response.

Hanauma Bay is great, but really crowded. Try Electric Beach on the Leeward side of the island. The parking lot is a little scary-but the snorkeling is excellent. You can read more about oahu snorkeling if you do a search for Snorkel Bob. You can rent gear from the company and they have a list of great sites.

I have snorkeled Kauai, The Big Island, Oahu, and Maui. The Big Island has the best snorkeling of all the islands by far. I thought Hanauma was way overrated. It was cloudy and didn%26#39;t have many fish. It was pretty though. The Big Island has Kahalu%26#39;u beach, Kealakekua Bay, (the Fair Wind boat trip there is the best!) Pu%26#39;uhonua o Honaunau, just to mention the best. We spent 10 days there a couple years ago and never saw the same beach twice. Snorkeled most of them and saw turtles every single day.

Thanks much Hoody1 and Marlin190 for the info. This year we%26#39;re staying put on Oahu, but next year we%26#39;re hoping for the Big Island, so I%26#39;ll keep those sites in mind till then. Electric Beach sounds great and I%26#39;ve already been checking out Snorkel Bob%26#39;s site.

We leave Sat 1/14 and return Sat 1/28, can%26#39;t wait.

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