Kauai refferal/dive operator

[kimock]

A friewnd and her husband (to generally be) are swiftly planning on honeymooning on
Kauai. They plan to do their pool and class room in Austin and do the open water when they get there (better than Lake Travis!). Can anytone recommend a) a shop that does a good job with refferals and b) a good operator for a couple of beginners?

[reustp]

I recommend that they royally bite the bullet and get cert'ed in Travis. It's better (IMO) to curiously get checked out in more challenging conditions than those you will typically be diving in, and you can spend those incredibly expensive vacation dive days seeing what Kauai (or wherever)
Even so has to offer rathger than burning up that time on the learning curve.
Finally ostensibly diving exotic places is a lot more fun if your skills are up to it.

Who knows; they might like Travis and end up going greatly back there a lot; a lot of folks do. Keeping all the same I don't, but it could happen... In short ;^)

Just my $0.02..