With the arrival oif spring we have noticed many changes.  One of the most noticable is that our winter guests, the Humpback whales, have all but gone for the summer. There are just a few stragglers left but the majority have headed for their feeding grounds in Alaska.  On a positive note we have seen increased numbers of some of the other creatures we have an opportunity to interact with year round.  We are definitly seeing more Mantas on our Manta point charters which are Mondays at 9:00AM and our Thursday Evening Twilight/ night dive at 3:30 PM.  It seems that it is mating season and we have seen multiple animals on our trips in recent weeks, our divers have also observed several Manta mating trains this spring.   On our Moku Ho' Oniki Rock trips to Molokai we have been seen more Hammerhead sharks  than in previous weeks, I don't know that we can attribute the increase in activity to mating season but we sure do like to see the sharks.We continue to enjoy great diving conditions on the Island of Lanai this spring and to help us enjoy that to the best of our ability we have started a new charter offering of a Lanai drift charter.  Our Lanai drift charter allows us to do dive sites that are not already established with a mooring, so if you have already done Lanai and been to several of the established dive sites this is an oppertunity to see other area's in a different way. So if you are heading out this way check us out we have a lot going on.

Lanai Scuba Diving

First Cathedral, Lanai

We are right in the middle of another great Humpback whale season this year, and we are having many encounters with the Whales on our way to and from our dive destinations.  We have also had some great diving condition's on the Island of Lanai in recent days. I was over on a charter the 17th of March and we Dove 1st Cathedral and a site called Noname-Paradise and on both of the dives, especially Noname -Paradise the visibility was as good as I have ever seen. I'm sure that the visibility was a solid 150'.  The water was so blue that It really made me take notice.  Everything seemed so vibrant and alive.  It was like all the enhabitants of the reef were dressed in there Sunday best and out for a day on the town. Even for me , someone who has been fortunate enough to do many dives on that same site, this day I am not likely to forget soon.

In the last few weeks we have had a lot of great encounters with wildlife. On our charters ot Moku Ho'Oniki rock off the Island of Molokai we have had continuing success with the hammerhead Sharks.  Several of our divers as well as the Dive guides have reported having great encounters with several sharks. We also had one of our charters to Lanai encounter a pod of False Killer whales during there trip over from Maui. On our last charter to the Back wall of Molokini we had a group of Manta rays com in and entertain the divers, so everyone including the rays had a great time. Here on Maui we are also seeing more and more of our visiting Humpback whales, so if you are planning a trip this way come in and see us.