![]() It’s hard to know who provides the best manta ray night snorkel. The Experience: Manta ray night snorkel, Kona It was that cool!! Authenticity of experience 18 Quality of interaction with culture/ environment 19 Engagement level 19 Enjoyment 20 Difficulty to arrange 16 TOTAL TC SCORE 92 So I feel confident saying that the Hawaii manta ray night snorkel would not only be the best snorkeling on the Big Island, but probably one of the best snorkeling experiences in the world too. I didn’t do the snorkeling, but the snorkelers on our boat all shared how close the rays were to them as they glided upside down near the surface. Possibly, dare I say, one of the world’s best night dives. Definitely one of the top dives of my life. This was a night dive and there were about a dozen rays. But that was just one ray during the daytime and I really wanted to see a manta ray at night. The verdict: Night swim with manta rays, KonaĪs a SCUBA diver, the manta dive, Kona was top of my list of things to do, especially after my previous experience manta ray diving in Thailand, which had blown me away. They look like the alien creature from the movie The Abyss. Two more enormous rays sweep through the water further above me. I peer into the dark, waiting for the manta rays to arrive.Īfter about 5 minutes, the first one arrives, aiming right for me, swimming overhead not much more than an inch from the top of my head. I kneel on the bottom and put my flashlight away, as the spotlights are sufficient. Getting there early meant I had a front row seat. Then we settled in just behind one of the huge spotlights as soon as they were turned on. I was buddied with one of the dive masters from the trip, and we took our time diving slowly around the area, and saw a couple of tiny nudibranchs, which are always cool. We entered the water just as it was starting to get dark, before most of the divers. Map of dive boat route from Honokohau Marina to manta ray dive site There were a couple of dive boats there already, and more arrived soon after. We arrived at Makako Bay just as the sun was setting. ![]() A pleasant late afternoon ride along the coastline saw us heading towards the airport area.
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