Pahoehoe Beach Park

Entry is to the far right of the beach just before the large patch of lava. Plan your dive to follow the lava shelf around to the right. You won't be disappointed!

Wow! This site is amazing. I dove this three times today and each time was impressed. From reading the other reviews it seems some people missed the main reef and stayed too close to shore. Enter on the north side of beach with the main lava shelf on your right. Drop down immediately (into about 5 or six feet of water). While diving keep this main lava shelf on your right and the first (really a lava shelf) reef stays with you to about 25 feet. This reef is filled with large schools of yellow tangs, goatfish, and damsels. Where the lava shelf ends the main reef begins and I followed it out to 85 feet of depth. Fish highlights include black-longnosed butterflyfish and Thompson's butterflyfish. As I climbed out from my second dive two turtles were sunning on the beach. Awesome! Final note, the inshore vis (in water less than 20 feet) was OK, but once it got a little deeper it was consistently 50' to 100' vis.

Great dive to the north of the beach around the reef. Dove straight out to 45 feet. Saw large barracudas and many very nice fish. Great dive. Doesn't look like a nice dive, but on the north side this is an excellent dive.

Don't waste your time on this one. We entered from the North end of the park, North of the Magic Sands resort, not from the sandy beach South of resort. Not much of the wildlife, though the reef looked good. The visibility was not the best on Hawaii. I also did snorkeling from South of the resort and some night snorkeling in hope to see some lobsters, but saw none. Go to the Place of Refuge or to Puako.

I dived this site with my 11 year old son when the (winter) conditions were making many of the other Kona Coast sites too rough. It's very impressive to consider what it must have been like as the lava entered the ocean here in a tongue of fire. Parking is easy and the showers make it a very pleasant dive.

Very pretty site to dive - lots of fish, turtles, colorful flatworms. We followed the reef to the north and never got below 40 feet. It was a very relaxing 90 minutes. Being able to shower is GREAT.

A nice little dive, not one of Kona's very best, but if you want a quick, easy, decent shallow dive that's right in Kailua town you might want to give it a shot. A great dive for those unsure of their navigation skills. Just follow the pahoehoe lava flow outward. You'll see patchwork reef and sand and lots of interesting nooks and crannies in the lava flow for eels and such- I've always wanted to try a night dive here to see what comes out at night. Further out there is a decent reef in about 30-45 feet of water.