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($78 per person). They also rent kayaks; rates start at $11 an hour and $25
a day.
SAILING Molokai Charters
(
&
808/553-5852
) offers a variety of sailing
trips for your family on
Satan's Doll,
a 42-foot sloop. Great for all ages, the trips
include a 2-hour sunset sail for $40 per person, a half-day of sailing and whale-
watching for $50 (mid-Dec to mid-Mar), and a full-day sail to Lanai with swim-
ming and snorkeling for $90 (which includes lunch, cold drinks, snacks, and all
equipment). Owners Richard and Doris Reed have been sailing visitors around
Molokai's waters since 1975.
SNORKELING
When the waters are calm, Molokai offers excellent snorkel-
ing; you'll see a wide range of butterfly fish, tangs, and angelfish. Good snorkel-
ing can be found—when conditions are right—at many of Molokai's beaches.
Molokai Rentals and Tours
(
&
808/553-5663;
www.molokai-rentals.com)
and
Molokai Outdoors Activities
(
&
877/553-4477
or 808/553-4477; www.
molokai-outdoors.com) rent the least expensive snorkel gear ($6 a day or $24 a
week). Molokai Outdoors also offers snorkeling tours for $65 per person.
For snorkeling tours, contact
Bill Kapuni's Snorkel & Dive,
Kaunakakai
(
&
808/553-9867
), which charges $65 per person for a 2
1
⁄
2
-hour trip which is
great for kids 7 and older. They also rent snorkeling gear for $10 a day. Walter
Naki of
Molokai Action Adventures
(
&
808/558-8184
) offers leisurely snor-
keling, diving, and swimming trips in his 21-foot Boston whaler for $100 per
person for a 4- to 6-hour custom tour; he'll take all ages, but I wouldn't recom-
mend it if your young ones can't swim or aren't comfortable in the ocean.
SURFING
Depending on the time of year and the wave conditions, Molokai
can offer some great surfing for the beginner as well as the expert.
Molokai Out-
doors Activities,
in the lobby of Hotel Molokai, just outside Kaunakakai
(
&
877/553-4477
or 808/553-4477; www.molokai-outdoors.com), not only
will know where the waves are, but they rent gear: soft surfboards ($13 a day),
short surfboards ($20 a day), and long boards ($24 a day). Good surfing spots:
Kaunakakai Wharf in town, Hale O Lono Beach and Papohaku Beach on the
West End, and Halawa Beach on the East End.
ON THE LAND
BICYCLING
Molokai is a great place to see by bicycle. The roads are not very
busy and there are great places to pull off the road and take a quick dip.
Molokai
Rentals and Tours,
Kaunakakai (
&
800/553-9071
or 808/553-5663; www.
molokai-rentals.com), offers an easy tour of 500 cultivated acres of coffee that
everyone in the family from ages 8 and up can handle. With numerous ups and
downs, the tour rounds the perimeter of the coffee fields, ventures up to an over-
look, and returns to the plant, where a walking tour shows you the coffee-mak-
ing process. The 2
1
⁄
2
-hour tours are held Monday to Friday at 8:30am; the cost
is $45 for adults and $25 for children under 16.
Molokai Outdoors Activities
(
&
877/553-4477
or 808/553-4477; www.
molokai-outdoors.com) offers a bike/kayak tour of the East End of Molokai,
with snorkeling; it's best for kids 12 and over since the trip lasts all day. All gear,
lunch, guide, and transportation is $140 per person. Bike rentals are $12 an
hour, $25 a day, or $108 a week, and include a complimentary bicycle rack for
your rental.
The best mountain biking in the state is on the trails of
The Lodge at Molokai
Ranch
(
&
888/627-8082
or 808/660-2824; www.molokai-ranch.com). Imagine