Moloka’i is one of the smaller islands in Hawaii. You can only fly there which was a surprise because I thought that they had a ferry. Turn out that the site for the ferry was fake and there has been no boat service for many years.
I paid about $200 for a round trip ticket from Maui. The rental car was about $100. I spent an entire day there and found not a whole lot of activities to do. I had originally signed up for a kayak tour but it was cancelled because of high winds.
In any case, I am not sure it would have been that good because the lagoon seems kind of shallow and the water doesn’t look that great.
I went first to a lookout over the old leper colony on Kalaupapa. It turns out that you can’t actually visit the old colony. There are no roads that lead to it. You can only walk to it and even then you have to have a permit. But the view was very good.
The next highlight was 3 mile beach. It was a stunning long stretch of beach with only a few people you ever saw the whole time I was there. There was even an endangered monk seal that came on the beach and rested for a long time.
In town there was a great ice cream place called Kamoi Snack and Go.
I was a little hard pressed to know what to do the rest of the day. I would not recommend spending a whole vacation there.