Kahoolawe is the smallest of the eight main volcanic islands in the Hawaiian islands. It is located about 7 miles southwest of Maui and also SE of Lanai.
Today Kahoolawe can be used only for native hawaiian cultural, spiritual and subsistence purposes. It has no permanent residents.
In 1993, became island reserve, consisting of the entire island and its surronding ocean waters in a two mile radius from the shore.
Molokini is a tiny crescent-shaped island about three miles east
of Makena.Molokini Crater is what’s left from an eruption that is said to have
occurred around 230,000 years ago. The cinder cone created has since
been eroded to a crescent atoll. Since it’s violent
volcanic ...
La perouse bay is located south of the town of Wailea. It was named for the french Captain Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, in 1786. La Pérouse surveyed and mapped the prominent embayment near the southern cape of Maui opposite the island of Kahoʻolawe. The ...
A little rolly and tricky to land at beach.
Good holding ground - big Sand patch for many boats.
Don't anchor where coral are.
Stay away if:
You want the boat don't move at all
You can't handle shorebreak
Don't like people paddle around your boat.
There is a marina here but you can forget it. It is always super packed and all but impossible to
get a “slip”. Just go past the marina and harbor entrance and find an open mooring buoy with
LYC painted on it. In 2010, these buoys were white and there were 7 of them. Most of them ...
Manele Harbor, located on Lanai’s south shore, has the only public boat
harbor on the island. Visitors who take the ferry from Lahaina on
neighboring Maui arrive here (five times daily), as well as a few
fishing and snorkeling tour boats. Manele Harbor’s activity is limited ...