Maui kayaking tours and snorkeling adventures featuring guided group and private tours. Explore Maui’s beautiful coastlines from a comfortable ocean kayak with no experience necessary. Our well trained guides will provide instruction and guidance to ensure that you have an incredible ocean adventure! See beautiful coral reefs, fish, turtles, rays and other colorful marine life and even dolphins and seals on occasion. See Maui’s “gentle giants” during the months of December thru April when the Humpback Whales do their annual migration to Hawaii. You won’t find large crowds here! Small and intimate Maui kayaking and snorkeling tours where you’ll explore Maui’s incredible marine life up close and

From the minute you make your online reservation with us at our www.southpacifickayaks.com website or by calling us at (808) 875-4848 during regular business hours, we’ll help you pick the ideal tour for your and your family.

All watersports are early morning activities here in Maui – reason being the trade winds tend to pick up about 11am or so (stronger in summer) making the waters uncomfortable (think about biking into the wind). While we do offer a 1030 departure, we always always try to steer and recommend the 7am times. Its early but the calm waters, more active reef life and better visibility make it worthwhile.

All of our kayak tours plan on stopping and include snorkeling. A typical snorkel stop lasts about 25 minutes or so, and your guide will provide a guided reef tour pointing out the little things you might otherwise miss.

We use doubles and single kayaks – we default to double kayaks so if you have an even number of people in your party, you’ll have double kayak(s). If you have an odd number (not divisible by 2), you’ll have a single and double(s). We do this for a number of reasons including safety, and minimizing our footprint.

Some things you might see on a snorkel tour ….. Sea turtles, an abundance of inshore reef fish, mayne some eels, wrays, dolphins, and once in a while maybe a white tip reef shark (harmless).

Here’s what a typical kayak and snorkel tour looks like (on average)…… A day in the life of a kayaks tour ……

• Check in at 7am at your designated location where you’ll meet your guide, sign a release, get fitted for personal floatation device (PFD), and some snorkel gear to use.
• Once all guests have checked in, we will regroup and go over kayak safety, etiquette and paddling technique. Listening here will be beneficial as it will make your morning easy and enjoyable.
•  Safety briefing complete, your guide will launch kayaks one at a time where you will paddle about 50 yards out and wait for all guests and guide where some further tips and suggestions will be made to help make the best of the day.
• From here we paddle some, we rest some until we come to our designated snorkeling stop (your guide will assess locations choosing the best with all considerations). Your guide will anchor his/her kayak, then systematically attach guests kayaks to the anchored guide kayak.
•  Typically we will anchor kayak just outside of the reef with a sandy bottom in about 15 feet of water or so (depends on the reef system your guide has chosen for the morning)
• Here, you will grab your snorkeling gear, pop on and slide off your kayak into the warm Maui waters (water temp varies but comfortable)
• Guide keeps and eye out, will offer a snorkeling tour to help you understand what you’re looking at and point out interesting and perhaps hard to notice interesting reef life.
• Done snorkeling, we’ll get ourselves back up on kayaks, gear off and back into snorkel bag, and paddles back in our hands. Comfortable?
• Guide will unleash guest kayaks and ask that you maintain your position or meet at a spot while he/she pulls anchor and gets situated to continue the tour.
• From here, guides assess conditions (current, winds, etc.) and decide where to paddle to next. We’ll stop all during the tour, take a minute, rest a little and learn a little about the island, history, folklore, and some insider perspective about things to do, restaurants to try and things to see. Maui is a unique place thats for sure!
• Working our way back to the shore where we launched, well again gather just about 50 yards from shore where guide will review our landing protocol.
• Guide will land and secure his/her kayak, then call in kayaks one at a time catching them and allowing guests to exit kayak and walk up the shore.
• All kayaks and guests on shore safely, we do a “check out” where we gather paddles, PFD’s and snorkel gear making sure we have our gear, and you have yours.
• A big “Mahalo” (Thank you) and Aloha, from here, you have a lot of day left over to do more, relax some, or just take a scenic drive. Enjoy!

GUIDE TIPs

• Book your activities with us early during your Maui vacation – you will be waking up early for a few days being accustomed to your time zone (you likely / might be up at 4am wide awake)
• Always grab the early departures – the crew is fresh, the waters are calm, the reef life more active and better visibility. The early bird gets the worm!
• ALWAYS plan your drive the day before making sure you know where to be (google / Apple map it) and what time to check in.
• Reef safe sunscreen is a must. Please be aware that this is the sunscreen that helps keep our reefs in pristine condition and helps out the environment.

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