Hawaii’s Forbidden Isle: Niihau & Napali Coast Snorkel Tour
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- This is the closest one can get to The Hawaiian Forbidden Island of Niihau. Let us take you on a tour of Kauai’s Napali Coast and snorkeling offshore Niihau at Lehua Crater.
This is our favorite Kauai snorkeling experience and probably the best snorkeling near Kauai. Get up close and personal with Niihau and the Napali Coast on this one-of-a-kind snorkeling tour.
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The Hawaiian Forbidden Island of Nihau Snorkel Tour: Lehua Crater and Napali Coast
00:00 Intro
00:25 Napali Coast Tour Information
02:39 Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins on the Napali Coast
03:29 Kauai’s Napali Coast
05:36 About Niihau
07:52 Niihau’s Lehua Crater Snorkeling
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We also had a very early morning leaving from princeville. We went with Holo Holo too
I love Kauai. I cant wait to go back.
Did this tour. Amazing.
Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the tour too!
We're going on this tour in September, so I was so excited to find such a great video showing the right time of year. Just a few more months, I can't wait!
Thanks for watching and have a blast on the Ni’ihau snorkeling tour!
it's amazing that the information to hawaii is conveyed so well.
thanks for the comment and for watching!
Love the Napali coast! that water looked great!
thanks for watching from Oahu! It was a good day out there
We just got back from Kauai on March 25th , we were there for 10 days. We did the same Napali Cost boat 🛥 tour that you just did. Holoholo Charters is an incredible company, it was AMAZING. Highly recommended.
We reached out to you on CZcams about where to stay and which tour were the best, and we Booked this trip because you recommended it and also recommended we stay at Koloa Landing resort, and we couldn’t be any happier. Thank you so so much for pointing us in the right direction, my Girlfriend and I ( whom is now my fiancé, I propose to her while we were on Kauai 😁) had an incredible time , your videos are inspiring and so very helpful, keep up the awesome job , I really appreciate it!!!! 🙌🏻🙏👍🏻Mahalo 🤙🏻😁🌺
Aloha Luis, thanks so much for sharing your experience. Congrats on the engagement! Let me know if you need tips on the honeymoon to Maui! 😂 I'm glad the Koloa Landing worked out for you two and isn't Holo Holo Charters fun? A great snorkeling tour. Thanks for watching and enjoy the wedding planning!
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide Holo Holo charters is So much fun!!! We got to whales, dolphins, manta rays and Monk seals! The snorkeling was perfect 🙌🏻
I’ll click the links just to keep this channel alive. One of my very favorites!
Thanks! That means a lot.
I absolutely....LOVE HAWAII!!!
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Time to go back!!!
Thanks for sharing!!!
😊😁😀😎👍
Book that flight! Thanks for watching!
So beautiful. Definitely will add this to our list of activities. Fingers crossed, we will be back on Kauai in December. Thanks for sharing!
Hope you can make it back. Thanks for watching!
Can't wait were going to maui end of June and staying at napili shores. 😎
Great place to stay. Plus Napili weather is so much better in June. Have a great trip!
This is in Kauai not Maui
Great video today guy’s, thanks for the information I’m sure it will come in handy 👍❤️🇨🇦😎
Amazing✨
Beautiful! Thank you for your very informative videos! I agree with you that the Napali coast is a must see when in Kauai! Loved loved loved our sunset cruise and doors-off helicopter tours of the Napali coast during our visits to Kauai a few years ago⛵️🚁 🌈🤙❤️
Our sunset cruise years ago was very memorable. Even with rough seas the sunset and views were amazing. Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful tour 😍 ! Napali coast is so beautiful. Unfortunately I get seasick very badly when i get on a boat so not possible for me 😭. But thanjs for sharing! 👏
Really good! Thanks!
I got to do the Napali Coast via boat, where we went into the sea caves and did snorkeling, helicopter and a hike that came out on the top of one of the cliffs. Absolutely loved it!
That sounds epic. I’m hoping to do the raft tour during our next visit but may have to do it solo. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful
Congratulations!!!!
Thx you for sharing
Haven't been back to Kauai since 2017. going there w/ my family, brother-in-law, cousin, and her family this July after my sister's wedding.
Have a wonderful trip!!
Wow. Just don't do the whip tour in January lol. Sure, Sunshine Helicopters we survived. Lol. Our fellow passengers were, well a little traumatized. If you like old school Mash style flying, go for it!! The honeymoon couple in front were frozen in fear. The lady next to us barfed the whole time. All in all, it was a great experience!! Lol
😂 that sounds like a helicopter tour! I hope the MASH pilot found an arch to fly under!
It looks awesome tour! I want to visit Niihau coast! I will definitely join the tour next time when I visit Kauai. I like your video 😃 lots of good information
Ah, the trip back from Niihau :) Our captain referred to it as the Hawaiian roller coaster.
The guide on the road to Hana in Maui referred to the road as the Hawaiian rollercoaster. 😂
we **Loved** the Holo holo. It was an amazing trip. One of the top three boat trips like these I've ever done. So very fun, memorable, amazing.
Thanks for sharing!!
We were there end of march and had to cancel our raft tour (and helicopter tour) to see the Napali coast due to weather 😔 thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for sharing! The weather can get rough out there, even in March. A good reason to come back for another visit!
I remember Papallion Helicopters. They and other companies used to land at Kalalau and take people in and out. The state caught them not reporting all of their landings so they were all stopped. I used to backpack there and also kayaked the NaPali Coast four times. The state now forbids organized overnight kayaking trips.
Thanks for sharing! Of course Papallion was doing more than just shooting the arch.
I'd love to do the Kalalau trail again. Perhaps when Henry can do it with me. Personally, I'm glad they started a permit system as even ten years ago a lot of people were living on the beach with no where for their trash. The state had to helicopter out their trash. Kayaking trips were probably better at pack in/pack out. Zodiacs used to land on the beach all the time too, I think they stopped that.
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide There has been permits and various enforcement since the late '70s. There were always hippies who thought they owned Kalalau. They got mad at us for picking the cherry tomatoes.Drug addled Clancy used to own Captain Zodiac and run the boats out of the North Shore. In spite of him it was a well run operation
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I saw that with people living there thinking they were tending to the land and living off the land but trash everywhere as they brought supplies in constantly. I hiked the trail after reading about it in National Geographic. It mentioned the Marine who lived out there and worked daily on fixing the trail. I got to meet him during our hike with a head nod.
Congrats to you and your family for the upcoming baby!
Thanks so much!
Question: waikiki trolley on Oahu, Lea Lea trolley...seems to be a lot of trolley companies...which covers the most areas at the best prices for hop on/ hop off transportation????
Nice video! Fortunately, not all tours from the south leave out of Port Allen as you state; several boats and companies leave from 10 miles further up the coastline, Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor, saving you 20 miles round trip and about an hour less on the boat.
Thanks for sharing!
Aloha!
Heading to Kauai in 2 days!!! For your snorkeling videos, do you use a filter? or adjust the color in post?
Another killer video! Keep em comin!
Have a great trip! No filter or after editing for my underwater footage, just raw GoPro HERO 8 4k footage. 24 fps
That's so awesome. We had a blast on our Maui vacation. Saw lots of whales and wildlife. To many firsts for me and my family to list. We are definitely coming back. We were thinking of visiting Moliki island this time. What are your thoughts on this Island?
Glad your Maui trip was great. We recommend Lanai over visiting Molokai. You can only fly to Molokai, one hotel or camping, not a lot to do, and residents prefer to have visitors stay around the main town. We don’t highlight the island at this time.
Hi there Aloha! Would there be other boat tours you can recommend that allows children under 5 to hop on the Napali coast cruise? We have a 6 and 3 yrs. Planning in going on February.
Captain Andy's has tours for 3 and above. have fun!
Since our vacation to Maui and Kauai this past September, I always watch these videos now keeping an eye out for people in the background who have become sea sick 😅😅 I wasn't expecting so many people to fall ill on our napali tour and it really scarred me for life!
It can get rough near the Napali Coast!
Is this tour beginner-friendly? I really want to do this tour! Going to Hawaii for the first time in August but have never been snorkeling before (cuz I am from the desert).
We found the snorkel spot to be calm and protected. It was deep. They have crew in the water to help and floaties available. Snorkeling in the ocean is always a big risk though so talk to the crew.
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Some of the best dive sites around are just off Lehua. I wouldn't recommend this for anyone how's not been on a small boat in the ocean all day. Only 3 of 11 people on my trip weren't chumming the water.
Thanks for sharing! We love diving tips. The channels around Hawaii are not for the faint of heart.
🤙 I've never seen so many Dive Masters puking. Lol
I worked on the ocean for 10 years in Hawaii. I've seen it all. Lol
Years ago we took the raft tour and went though the cave. Absolutely amazing. Spinner dolphins swam next to us and the guide took my underwater camera and filmed them underwater. The way back was super rough and wavy. I had my camera strap in my hand as I hung on to the raft and the camera was slapping against the raft. I was too afraid to let go and put the camera somewhere safe. Camera didn’t make it. Next time I’ll take the catamaran. Lol.
haha, I'm glad you survived. Yes, these tours are not meant for kids or cameras in your hand. The north coast of Kauai gets rough but totally worth it!
Question do they let you fly the drone if you are licensed?
You can ask the captain but probably not. They don't want people jumping off the boat let alone flying a drone from the boat. The island is a bird sanctuary so flying isn't allowed there too.
Do you have any Molokai videos and if I do 6 island hop how long should I make trip
We do not have videos or articles on Molokai. Read our article on visiting multiple islands in a trip: thehawaiivacationguide.com/how-to-visit-4-hawaiian-islands-in-2-weeks-itinerary-included/
@@TheHawaiiVacationGuide thanks I was in Hawaii in marines In 82 for super squad and didn't see much I was to young went to kaui and big Island and ohau then back to Okinawa in 88 I flew with my brother when I visited from to La and stayed at Sheraton and did luau and loved now I'm 61 no kids and if I get money in future I'll take a month off to follow guide I have more time to explore id fly from jfk.
I can't believe how dry and void of color the Na Pali coast in now! The last time I was there, it was so green....
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Why would your sister wear a nasty women shirt? I don’t get it. Why do you want to be nasty? Gross