Halona Cove
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- No lifeguard
- No facilities
- Sandy beach
- Rocky shoreline
- Good swimming when calm
- Parking at Halona Blowhole Overlook
- Difficult, rocky, somewhat steep hike down to beach, be sure to wear sturdy shoes
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"Rough to get to!"
You can park at the lot for the blow hole and walk your way along the road down into the cove. The walk into the cove is probably more dangerous than the walk along the road, there is not a real path and it is just a guessing game, but having said that the cove is so amazing! The water is nice and warm and there are tons of turtles down here. If you can handle treking the kids down this hill side there is a sweet pay off!
Update: We stppoed by here while visiting the blow hole and ws surprised to find security at the top of the path overlooking a ship wreck and what appears to be archeologists below taking pictures and inventory. My husband being the adventurer managed to get his way down. WHile I was up top I overheard that this was not an archeological dig but a shooting of Priates 4, my hasband took many pictures of the set and when he came up he said he had no idea what kind of weird boat they found. When I explained what I overheard he replaied with:"that explains why the boat had a spine carved into it". Needless to say this was a funny situation!
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"Fun with the Family"
As Oahu’s landscape changes with more people, traffic, and development, there’s a tiny famous pocket of sand that remains unchanged. The world knows this as the beach where Burt Lancaster kissed Deborah Kerr in From Here to Eternity.
Regardless of its name, however, the east Oahu beach is an idyllic respite, a haven of peace bordered by popular, and crowded Hanauma Bay and Sandy Beach.
To get there you have to hike down a small cliff to the left of the renowned Halona Blowhole. It’s about a five-minute walk to the tiny cove, where oftentimes you’ll be the only folks present. The swimming is ideal as most of the bay is sheltered, and there are a few tide pools to explore on either side where the lava borders the ocean. The views are expansive; on a clear day you can see Molokai in the distance, and during whale season you can almost always see a few spouts erupting in the cobalt blue ocean.
As children, we held birthday parties here; in high school it was the site of our football victory parties. During holiday vacations from a Mainland college, it was often the first place we visited to capture the feeling that we were really “back home.” Now, as adults, we’re grateful that this small stretch of valuable coastline has remained undeveloped, as we take our own children there to explore the tide pools and swim in the bay.
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