Touring Kauai's Na Pali Coast with Napali Catamaran

One of the activities we love to do in Hawaii is snorkel.  The water is warm.  The fish are colorful.  If you’re lucky you’ll get to see a turtle.  But when we visited Kauai over nine years ago we had bad luck with our snorkeling.  The water was cloudy and rough and we didn’t see many fish.  We didn’t want that to happen again, so we decided to join Napali Catamaran's snorkeling tour in hopes we would be taken to better snorkeling spots than we had found on our own.  Plus we had seen Kauai's Na Pali Coast by air and by land, and this would be a good chance to see it in a third way, by water. 

Snorkeling Thailand’s Ko Phi Phi Islands

Our lunchtime view during our day of snorkeling the Ko Phi Phi Islands with Simba Sea Trips.

No trip to the Phuket, Phang Nga Bay, or Krabi areas in Thailand can truly be complete without a boat ride to the Ko Phi Phi Islands and, if you are a fish and water lover, a day of snorkeling or scuba diving around the Ko Phi Phi Islands.  There are multiple options for traveling to the Ko Phi Phi Islands: ferries from Phuket or Krabi, large tour companies offering huge boats filled with dozens to up to 100 passengers, longtail boats that can be hired to make the trip privately, and, as we chose, smaller tour companies with boats for groups under 20 people.