No Name Paradise - This is our ace in the hole, for days the current is chasing us around Lanai. Lucky for us, it's also a great dive site. This is actually two dive sites or one huge one. One half of the dive takes place around a pinnacle (No Name) with two swim throughs (good photo opportunities) and an abundance of marine life. Take a few moments to look out and around during this dive. The schools of fish will be over your head here. Keep an eye out for a turtle on the pinnacle side of this dive site. He doesn't usually announce his arrival, unfortunately. At this point your dive guide may cross the sand to the next dive area (Paradise) or he/she may return to the boat by circumnavigating the pinnacle. The paradise side of the dive site is an underwater continuation of the shoreline, ending in a wide swim through that looks like an underwater cave with stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Be watchful of your depth at this point in the dive. You can easily dip to over 90 feet here, dropping into a dive site we call the Drop Off. As you swim along the wall here keep your eyes peeled for wire coral with resident gobies, frog fish and snow flake coral. As you make your way along the wall towards shore, be sure to look up and watch the surge roll over the rocks overhead. It looks like a storm front moving in. As you leave the wall and head back towards the boat, keep a look out for those masters of camouflage, the octopus. They seem to like to hang out in the rubbley area between the two dive sites. This site can be done as a first or second dive, with depth ranging from 60 to 80 feet.
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