Love your video tours, thank you for doing this! The starfish you saw (huge green one with brown spikes) is called a crown of thorns sea star and is poisonous as well as invasive (they eat coral!)
There are many great shore diving sites on the western side of the big island. To learn more about them visit: konahonudivers.com/best-shore-diving-big-island.htm
Aloha Mick! We're glad you like the video. Summer is typically a better time of year to shore dive due to the calmer ocean conditions. Boat diving is good year around but also is effected by ocean conditions during the winter months. For us that would be December thru May As far as visibility is concerned it is typically good year round coming in around 40 - 100 feet or 15 - 30 meters
How is the entry/exit these days? Is it ok for a newer diver and/or someone who's never been/dove here before? Where exactly is the entry and is it marked in some way?
Entry is on the far side of the beach. It's rocky. Not a great first shore dive. Probably be better off going to Kailua Bay, or Mile marker 4 for your first dive.
Thanks for doing the shore diving videos!
Our pleasure!
Love your video tours, thank you for doing this! The starfish you saw (huge green one with brown spikes) is called a crown of thorns sea star and is poisonous as well as invasive (they eat coral!)
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There are many great shore diving sites on the western side of the big island. To learn more about them visit:
konahonudivers.com/best-shore-diving-big-island.htm
thx for sharing,
nice video , love the microbiology .
kona coast, best visibility? any particular time of year?
cheers mick
Aloha Mick! We're glad you like the video. Summer is typically a better time of year to shore dive due to the calmer ocean conditions. Boat diving is good year around but also is effected by ocean conditions during the winter months. For us that would be December thru May
As far as visibility is concerned it is typically good year round coming in around 40 - 100 feet or 15 - 30 meters
Aloha Mick, Best time of year for shore diving is definitely summer June-September as the surface is calmest then
How is the entry/exit these days? Is it ok for a newer diver and/or someone who's never been/dove here before? Where exactly is the entry and is it marked in some way?
Entry is on the far side of the beach. It's rocky. Not a great first shore dive. Probably be better off going to Kailua Bay, or Mile marker 4 for your first dive.
@@Konahonudivers Great. Thank you for the info. We'll stop in and grab tanks and weights from you guys when we get there in a few weeks.
This looks...horrifying? Why is the reef so dead/washed out?
Hmmm. Yellow coral? White balance was off and the water was very green that day?