129 results for Kata Beach

The dive can be bad, depending on visibility. Seek to go out of the bay or hug the shore.The area is quite populated with giant manta rays. You don't hear of dangerous encounters, but you are sure to find one.

Real safe diving for Children.Lots of small wild life to explore.Watch out for the Sea Urchins, they group together in packs of 10 to 50.Looks like a pin cushion.Small jellies spend the morning in the pool.By 10 they have all moved out to sea.Some viability issues, as they are dredging up the coast.

This is a VERY shallow dive ? at high tide max depth is 15?.There is a good deal of marine life here, including lobsters.Parking is around $10 for the day, and there are accessible restrooms at the beach.This site does have an easy entry/exit.Try to stay straight or west off of the breakwater.There is a rumor circulating that there is a WWII aircraft in the vicinity, but you?ll need a boat/kayak…

Simply swim around the reef and check out the marine life. Commonly seen aquatic life includes: pacific snake eels, urchins, and the infamous green sea turtle. Manta rays have been seen on the rock point as well!

Sandy bottom with Rays and sand sharks

Mostly dive training

Parking is restricted to residents only for the summer months, although groups can check with the local police dept. for a permit.This is a sandy beach with an easy entry, and a short walk from the parking lot.This site is a small cove with rocky walls bordering both sides and a sandy center, with Southwesterly exposure.A reef can be found a few hundred yards offshore.Depth is approx. 25?.Typical…

Series of boulders and slabs.

Good site for first open water dives and sheltered water training.More advanced divers can access the Morris Rogue from here, but it's a good swim!USE A SURFACE MARKER BUOY! Close inshore is inside the 5kt limit for boat traffic during the summer, so good and safe, but if going further off shore, or out of season a good SMB is essential.

Located in the North of Piti Bomb Holes, this beach dive is started and ended by walking in ankle-to-knee-deep water perpendicular to the beach, along a thigh-width pipe. At the wave-break zone, this pipe is at the bottom of a rip-current notch in the reef. Fortunately, the pipe has rough joints at intervals of about one yard, making it almost a perfect "ladder" to easily work back in toward shore…

The entry and exit points are both very sheltered, gently sloping sand beaches.This site is almost always sheltered and the entry is probably the easiest on the entire South African coast. Wave action is normally not more than an inch or two and is rarely more than 30cm high. There can be a little surge round the point if there is a big swell.There is a rocky point going out into the sea for about…

This site is known to yield fossilized sharks' teeth. Poor visibility, esp when the water's a little choppy. I have found upwards of 60 teeth in a one-hour dive. (Pics of them on my page.) Teeth ranged from serrated (white sharks) to lanceolate (sand sharks). Many different sizes. This site has been reported to yield teeth in excess of 4" diameter !!! Local dive guides available, but you won't…

This is a great dive site, much more to see under than above ;-) Summer months bring snorkeling tours out to site. Be careful of boats and bring a dive flag! Watch for turtles catch the updraft from the pipe. They look like they are really flying. DO NOT GO IN THE EXIT SURGE FROM THE PIPE YOURSELF! Its like a washing machine.There are a couple rather small swim thrus to the east of the pipe, but…

Nce dive site; good for both Scuba and Snorkeling. Just take care of boat traffic comming from Honokohau Harbor!

Great shore dive! Even better at Night!Good for training or having a large gathering.Guide ropes and easy bottom definition for ease of navigation. don't forget to visit the swing and the VW Bug!

A large bay with many different routes to dive. Like Turtle Alley, it can be difficult to access early in the season due to the kelp, but also has many alleys, rock and coral outcrops and sandy patches. Many different varieties of Moray Eel are seen at this site, from the small Grey Moray, Yellowmouth and Yellowmargin Morays, the rare Dragon Moray to the huge, 2m + Honeycomb Morays.There is also a…

nice pebble beach, pier full of fishermen, lovely spot, good pub and cafe, with small car park.

Mantis shrimp can be found here!

Kelp with Callico bass and Garabaldi, some other fish

Different locations from this beach.Small dive school there.

Nice easy dive with lots of crustations and dogfish around.

An underwater labyrinth of rock passages, caverns and swimthroughs. This site gives the feeling of a well-lit cave dive, but direct access to the surface is available throughout 90% of the canyons. Coral growth (and diving) is limited in this area, due to turbid water conditions and large swell for most of the year. July-September see calmer seas, making this site accessible. When it's on, it's ON…

This site is a favourite among macro photographers for the huge variety of creatures found here. This gentle, sandy slope is covered with nudibranchs, flounders, puffers, skeleton shrimp, robust, halimeda and rough snout ghost pipefish, tozeuma shrimp, Zanzibar shrimp, flying gurnards, mimic and long-armed octopuses, Ambon scorpionfish and much much more.

From this beach there are 2 dives.You go north at about 15 Ft until you reach the drop-off to 50 Ft.Then either go north-west along the wall.At the far end it's 92 Ft depth and you turn around or you go North-East.This side needs good navigators that can find their way back.The second is notorious for diving among the tall 6-foot kelp.Excellent for spear fishing your meal.

Shallow dive site with sandy bottom and small caves. The special of this site is the black spotted moray (Gymnothorax favagineus)!

Access to the water is down some concrete steps with hand rail to sea front, followed by a small step down onto the rocks. A careful scramble foreword where you may find a large flat-top rock which is ideal to sit on for final kitting up before entry. A reasonably short surface swim to desired depth which is about 8 - 10m depending on tide of course. Once down the sea bed is clean shingle with…

A perfect dive site to mix familly & dive activity. Coral is good, soft corals, two turtles...

Family Beach, located near Outhouse Beach, is idyllic beach diving. it is within Apra Harbor, thereby guaranteeing that during most weather it is divable. Unlike Outhouse Beach, it is fairly brightly lit, with moderately well developed corals and moderately abundant sea life. Parking is alongside a white sandy beach. From there, divers wade out on a flat, sandy/grassy bottom in knee-to-waist-high…

White sand and a natural reef of boulders and rocks. Sea dragons, dusky whalers, small rays... but not much fixed life.

Outhouse Beach is a favorite spot for SCUBAcertification dives. On a typical day, five to ten SCUBA companies' vans will be gathered at this site, busy conducting PADI Open Water certification dives. This should not, however, be taken as a sign that the site is exceptionally pretty. In fact, it is not. The steep beach is made of large pebbles. Underwater, there is little or no reef, and little…

This site features an initial sandy reef flat at 8m followed by a steeply dipping hard coral reef to 30m, and lies 100m offshore. It runs parallel to the eastern coast (southern section), and is named after the navigation beacon that overlooks it. The reef is not as scenic as at other sites, but there is a good range of colorful fish. Reef fish include several varities of wrasse, hawkfish,…

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