Molokini Crater Snorkeling Tour (plus the famous back wall) | Get to Molokini in 15 Mins
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2023
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Thanks for watching! Learn more about this tour and their 5-hr tour, plus save $10 per ticket when you book here: thehawaiivacationguide.com/activities/molokini-crater-snorkeling-tour-review/
My wife and I are avid snorkelers and freedivers. We went with Redline back in 2016 out to Molokini. They also took us to the backside of the crater and it blew us away. Incredible clarity and you feel so insignificantly small, but I will say it is intimidating when you turn you back to the wall and look out into the deep blue ocean depths. Worth every penny and Redline was great. Your channel is great and have loved all the tips through the years. Cheers
My kids and I were supposed to be in Maui Christmas week but our flight got canceled. Watching your videos always puts me in Maui, I love your videos. My wife wanted to retire there but unfortunately God had other plans for her. I have 3 trips planned this year to Maui I feel it will connect me with her being there.
Thank you for sharing with the world.
wow, 3 trips! Have a great time and thanks for watching. Bummer the Christmas trip got canceled due to all the flight issues.
Redline is THE BEST tour group to go with! The smaller groups are awesome and the guides are great
thanks for sharing! They make it easy to support a local company!
We have gone snorkeling and snubbing many times at the Crater and never knew about the wall. We have been using a different tour operator leaving from Lahaina. Thanks for sharing a new tour operator.
Two videos in one week! It's like Christmas all over again! 😎🤙
The water is so clear. It's beautiful! Mahalo 🌴
I'll be using this footage a lot! So clear!
You guys rock. We went on a snorkel trip to Molokini under your recommendation with Kai Kanani; it was truly amazing. Now again, under your recommendation, will have to try Red Line tours next time we are on Maui. This year we head to Big Island for a week and Kauai for the second week. Keep the videos coming.
Did you prefer Kai Kanani or Red Line?
@@kaylarice2931 Kai Kanani was awesome. I would take the sunrise tour to Molokini and Turtle town . Haven’t been on Red Line but I heard great things.
Nice video. I have never snorkeled Molokini, but have dived there a few times- inside is nice, it I love the back wall- easy diving, get in and let the tide take you. Love seeing the sharks getting cleaned.
so cool! I'd love to see a shark cleaning. thanks for sharing!
Awesome footage. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!!
Went to Molokini once on a bigger tour boat, wasn't overly impressed, but this seems more my speed. Will give it a shot next time I'm back on Maui with my wife. Thanks for taking us along and Happy New Year (from Canada)!
Happy New Year! Erica loves tours but she especially loves quick tours. She liked getting there fast for more time in the water. Enjoy on your next trip to Maui! Stay warm!
Thank you both. I was looking for a video of this tour and you all nailed it. Thx
that is great to hear! Enjoy the trip out!
Loved red line rafting and going to molokini! Actually the captain in the video was the same one I had in September when I went!! Did the 5 hour tour with them and it was great! Also your guys videos are phenomenal and a huge help when I came to Maui! Thank you for all you do!!
The captain was great! He said he much preferred the 5 hour tour for the places they get to go. Thanks so much for watching and the comment!
Thanks for posting guys! Just in time to plan a snorkel trip to Molokini for my Birthday!
Happy Birthday Grace! Have a great time!
Aloha guys. Thanks for what you do. It is very helpful , we will be in Maui in just 9 days can’t wait
Have a wonderful trip to Maui! Enjoy whale season!
Thank you we will. We enjoyed it last year in March.
Hope too see you guys at the whale watch 🤙
Nice guys!
Thanks!
ON OUR HONEYMOON MY WIFE AND I SWIMMING SAW A 8 FOOT REEF SHARK SWIMMING BELOW US.. SCARY, WE HAVE SEEN JAWS, BUT SO EXCITING.
Makes for a great story! It is amazing when you can snorkel with one!
Aloha just booked our 2 hour tour! I live here but always need suggestions on where to go, this Molokini Snorkel tour is perfect, especially during
whale season! Thanks for your awesome channel, I recommend you all the time ☺️
Mahalo Danni! Thanks for watching and sharing. That means a lot that you watch as a local resident. Sometimes we all need a reason to get out and about in our own neck of the woods.
❤ Aloha
I'm here for another banger of a vid.
you won't be disappointed. This was a fun one to make, the Molokini footage is crystal clear.
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide you weren't lying. Definitely using your itinerary when I go back out to Maui this year!
My fave channel!
thanks for being one of the first to watch it!
So jealous. Wife and I went to Maui the day after thanksgiving. Our tour boat got us out the first location and a motor blew out. So we never made it to Molokini Crater. Which was my #1 most anticipated thing of the trip. :( Hopefully we'll go back in Sept. Great video. Mahalo!
that is some bad luck! we had a trip to Molokini where the weather was weird and the crater and backside were bad. We left and it cleared up 20 minutes later, the other boats told our captain. I hope you can make it back in September!
We've been to Maui 6 times, the last 3 visits we've tried to get out to Molokini, but each time the weather was too windy, hoping to get out there on our next visit, looks awesome!
That’s surprising but we had bad luck in November where the weather got goofy and they boat couldn’t moor in the crater or the backside.
Nice🐸🍺🔪🔥
super
love your channel, will be going to maui in the end of february, planning out our itinerary based on your channel. can you tell me what boat tour would you recommend for molokini if we're staying in kaanapali?
Thanks for watching! Sail Maui has great Molokini Crater tour that leaves from Lahaina Harbor, Save 10% with promo code HVG10.
Love your channel and what camera did you use on the boat ?
we use our Sony ZV-1 on the boat and GoPro for underwater. Thanks for watching!
Love your videos. What camera do you use for underwater?
GoPro hero 10. Our camera gear is on the description. Thanks for asking
I saw in your other video that you only recommend tours for those who want the boat experience and can get the same experience from the shore. Do you still stand by that? I have tours to Lanai, West snorkeling cruise, Malokini and more but am wondering if it will be worth it compared to the shoreline.
shoreline snorkeling is great on Maui, especially during the spring to fall. If one loves to be on the water and can budget for a snorkel tour, then that is the best experience. If not, don't be dismayed with the shoreline snorkel options. Molokini and Lanai are unique experiences with crystal clear water, so I can no longer say you can have that experience from Maui's shore. I hope all that talk makes sense. Enjoy your boat tours!
Might be a be the time of year or conditions of that day but there doesn't appear to be that much fish in thjs video and you should be able to find places with that amount if fish newr the shore. Someone in the comments seem to mention a deeper more healthier part of Molokini.
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Do they cover the backside/backwall in the 2hr tour? We are in Maui for just 2.5 days so preferably want to avoid the 5hr tours if possible
It isn’t standard in the two hour tour. We got lucky as the conditions were good and folks were done snorkeling the crater early. Possible but not guaranteed
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide Greatly appreciate your reply. I've booked the 4 hour tour, hopefully conditions are good that would enable to include the backwall as well. Mahalo!
Have a great time! My next goal is to scuba back there.
I don't know swimming can I do snorkeling?
Looks like went a little wild on the contrast curves
I don’t touch contrast or any editing tools. Only raw footage.
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide maybe a device setting. IDK. We rented a boat ourselves and drove out to molokini and turtle town, but no turtles in turtle down. And the anchors are so deep underwater there that you borderline drown to get a hold of it.
@@aggiechase37 if that's the case maybe you shouldn't have rented a boat solo and perhaps you should go with a professional Captain, snorkel/dive boat operator and be shown the beautifulness that is molokini and the coast of Maui.. don't underestimate the local knowledge of a local professional. If you almost drowned trying to recover your "anchor", perhaps you mean underwater mooring? One pulls up an anchor from the boat, how do you almost drown? Again, amateurs, especially in a new and unfamiliar location, should go with local professionals. Don't underestimate local knowledge of local operators.. you'll be shown a better time.. Just saying
We did Redline with MoLikini with back wall, what an experience!
Went there in 2005 there was so many fish what happened there was so so many fish big fish big
Don't even know if they're there anymore but we went on the trilogy catamaran out of Lahaina
they are still there and they also leave from Kaanapali beach!
Hawaii is the best diving I have ever had but not that dive.
MOLOKINI WAS SO MUCH FUN, I LOVE YOU, MAUI. I ADDED UP, I HAVE BEEN TO HAWAII, ABOUT 42 TIMES, AND I WAS ON MAUI ON EVERY SINGLE TRIP. I WAS THERE THE DAY OF THE ECLIPSE, SADLY, THERE WAS HEAVY CLOUD COVER THAT PARTICULAR DAY. I WENT OUT SNORKELING AT KEIHI, ON THAT DAY, WHEN IT WENT DARK AT 12 NOON.
that is an amazing number of times, well done! I want to travel to see a full eclipse. That would be an experience.
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide THE FULL ECLIPSE HAPPENED TO BE ON MY BIRTHDAY, ABOUT EXACTLY, SO SINCE I GO TO MAUI ON MY BIRTHDAY, I ALREADY HAD MY FLIGHT AND HOTEL ACCOMADATIONS BOOKED, BY FORTUNATE HAPPENSTANCE. ALL THE HOTEL BOOKINGS ON MAUI WERE FILLED UP VERY EARLY *(BY 6 MONTHS AHEAD OF THE ECLIPSE), PEOPLE KNOWING THE ECLIPSE WAS COMING, I JUST GOT LUCKY, AS I BOOKED MY STAYS IN HAWAII, *(USUALLY ALWAYS SOME TIME ON MAUI), A YEAR IN ADVANCE, AS IT WAS, ALREADY. I WENT TO THE VARIOUS HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, MANY YEARS, TWICE A YEAR, CHRISTMAS TO NEW YEARS, AND THE FOURTH OF JULY, MY BIRTHDAY IS, JULY 8th.
It did not go dark during the day on "Eclipse day.". It was cloudy and no different than a normal day, pretty much..
@@captadampetersen I REMEMBER IT GOING DARK, NOT BLACKOUT DARK. I THINK IT WAS IN THE 1980S, I WILL LOOK IT UP. HEAVY CLOUDS, EVERY HOTEL WAS FULL, AS I REMEMBER. I GOT LUCKY, SINCE MY BIRTHDAY IS IN EARLY JULLY, I HAD MADE RESERVATIONS FOR THE NEXT YEAR, 12 MONTHS AHEAD OF TIME. I DID NOT KNOW AN HAWAIIAN ECLIPSE WAS COMING, THAT NEXT JULY. IT WAS A BIG DEAL, FOR THE HAWAIIAN TOURISM TRADE, I AM SURE. ALOHA.
@@captadampetersen YES, MY ECLIPSE DAY WAS IN 1991, JULY 11th. MY BIRTDAY IS ON JULY 8th. IT WAS A TOTAL ECLIPSE, FAIRLY DARK, DARKER ON THE BIG ISLE.
We want some time ago into the crescent portion and there was not much to see at all. Big disappointment. Went back to the beach in front of the Waialea and saw so much more!
thanks for sharing!
So sorry that whatever boat operator you went with on that day took you to a bad part of the inside of molokini. I personally have captained and run many scuba and snorkel boats to molokini as well as Maui and Lanai for over 30 years. Mid reef and reefs end, "inside" the crater, are spectacular. I think just maybe went to a poor spot or poor day and yes, we have some great diving off the shore of Maui, Wailea and many other places, as well.
Important safety tip. Follow what your guides tell you! The edges of the crater are great, however there are currents. I was caught in a current that had me working like mad not to be takend out of the crater and into open sea. On the good side, I was swimming in a school of barracuda holding station. They were as big as I am 6'2.
That’s a great tip! The Redline guide gave ample warning about the risk of the crater edge. Can suck one right out.
You wouldn’t be the first nor the last caught in those currents. They are deadly especially to those tourists who don’t know the ocean
True you must listen to your captain / tour leader. And yes sir can be some currents.. But absolutely no barracuda, especially in Hawaiian Islands are 6ft 2in. Just saying
That is *not* the healthiest part of the reef... the other end of the crater is better. However, that part is shallower, so easier to snorkel. The other end is deeper, but even healthier, and occasionally you'll see some white tip sharks
thanks for sharing!
I want to go! Next video, more ladies, more bikinis, less fish. Who does five hours in the water? Crazy.
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