Diving Molokini

We get to go to Molokini Crater almost every day but we had not been around to the backside of the crate. It is a sheer dropoff, nearly 300 feet straight down to the ocean floor. Being 3 miles offshore the water is crystal clear although the currents can be very fast and dangerous. I participated in an underwater Easter egg hunt put on by a local dive shop and found a winning egg, so Heidi and I decided to cash in the prize (a 2 for 1 dive trip) and do a backside Molokini dive.
It was amazing. We got out early and immediately after jumping in we could see how beautiful it was underwater. The wall just dropped away into the deep blue and it was crawling with fish. So we descended to around 100ft and kicked along the wall. Its fun looking close up at the wall to see colorful nudebranchs (sea slugs), moray eels, and lobsters and then looking out into the deep blue just in case something big swam by.
After finishing up the backside dive we did another dive at Molokini called 'Reefs End'. When we swam around the outside of reefs end the current picked us up and carried us at about 3knots. We couldn't really stop for pictures but just imagine floating, 50ft down, and watching the reef fly by. It was the epitome of a 'drift' dive. The boat was there to pick us up at the end and we warmed up all the way back, anxious to look at our pictures and relive the dive!