With its epic, green-carpeted cliffs — rising a record-setting 3,900 feet above the crashing waves — plus clear waters ripe for snorkeling, Molokai casts a powerful spell on visitors.

Molokai Dispatch photo Residents on Molokai ... “It was a matter of diving down below with a snorkel and mask, grabbing a bit of (algae) and bringing it back up to the surface to identify.