Kee:


The end of the road brings you to Kee Beach.  It's getting harder and harder to find parking here, even in the winter.  It's also the starting point for the Kalalau hike, so the parking lot fills up early.  But if you can find parking and the conditions are good, it's a fun place to spend a few hours, too.
Here's a view of Kee from the hike showing the nice protective reef blocking out the ocean waves.   It doesn't always knock them down in the winter, but when it does, it's a great place to go.

A pool like calmness even on a Feb. day. 

 Super clear

not a tremendously large area, but large enough.

lots of shade and easy water access.

Would love to be on the ship some day!

 Do have to be careful around the mossy rocks at the shoreline, though.

 Heading in.

snowflake eel

blackspot sergeant

schools of fish

large travelly

 hybrid sergeants

turtle

 school of mullet

big eye emperor

 manybar goatfish

elegant coris

magnificent snake eel

 Hawaiian knife fish

coronet fish

some of the underwater terrain

black tail snapper

Moi?

 threadfin butterflyfish

 yellowstripe goatfish

 more Kee terrain

 sea urchin

 snowflake eel

neighbors greeting each other

female bird wrasse

 to the outer reef

more by the outer reef

 white bar surgeonfish

Christmas wrasse

saddle wrasse and friends

 barred filefish

 cleaner wrasse

back on shore a view back towards some snorkelers showing the surf being knocked down by the reef.

I also like to walk down the beach a ways and look back towards the Napali for some great views

playing with some of the weird features of my new underwater camera.

If it's near sunset, I suggest staying around for that, too.  I've seen some spectacular ones from here!