Honolua Bay

USA / Hawaii / Kapalua /
 bay, snorkeling area, invisible, tourist attraction
An OK bay, snorkeling, & beach. You descend to it from the road above.

Honolua Bay is the open bight on the S side of Lipoa Point, which is 7 miles NE of Keka‘a Point. Smaller vessels can find fair anchorage in the bay, and boats can land in the cove at the NE end. In the vicinity of Lipoa Point, the bluffs along the N shore of Maui become higher and more precipitous. Also, the bluffs are cut up by more bights and headlands. The country is more rolling and is cut by deeper gulches. The mountains are steeper and greener. Near their tops the mountains are wooded in places. Patches of black rocks, awash at high water, are found close inshore off several of the points in the vicinity. Vessels should give this coast a berth of at least 0.8 mile.
[www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/nsd/coastpilot_w.php?book=7] Chapter 14
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Coordinates:   21°0'53"N   156°38'22"W

Comments

  • Great snorkeling but only on calm days, exposed to the north winds
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