Top Snorkeling and Scuba Diving in Kahaluu-Keauhou

Kahalu'u Beach Park is a wonderfully popular park for sunbathers, snorkelers, and beginner divers. The fish are plentiful, and the turtles are abundant. Facilities are excellent. Directions: You'll find Kahalu'u Beach Park at mile 4.8 on Ali'I Drive, just South of Kailua.

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This is a great night dive spot. Mantas are really fabulous (success rate is about 80%). If you miss them, typical marine life found in this area are garden eels, squirrel fish, goat fish, butterfly fish, moray eels and invertebrates. This great spot is second only to Manta Ray Village. The Sheraton hotle shines lights down into the water which attracts plankton. In search of a meal, manta rays soar in and gourge themselves. Get in the water at sundown and get on the bottom and wait. Soon manta rays come to eat. Horrid surge though. Extremely difficult to find a good spot where you won't get beat up by the rocks and surge. Just at the entrance of Keauhou Bay, south of Kailua. Look in front of the newly built Kona Surf Hotel on the southern point of Keauhou Bay. Rather difficult access. Park at the Sheraton's hotel parking lot and gear up and walk to the rocky beach. Find a decent spot to step in and watch out for the slippery rocks and surge. Can be quite nerve racking at night or even during the day. Manta Ray Madness is also known as Sheraton Manta Ray, Manta Ray Night dive, Sheraton Point.