After hiking out of Kealakekua Bay we drove North to Kona to re-supply food and to print out our Waimanu permit then it was North along the lava strewn and newly developed coast towards Hapuna Beach which being a Sunday was PACKED.
We parked outside the park and made our way through the overfilled parking lot to thebeach where we hung in the shade of the southern cliffs.
The water was just as packed as the beach with boogie boarders in the surf line to ride the big swells that were coming in. We joined the throng but after being run over for the nth time I retreated to the beach to read and people watch. Off to the Northwest Mau’i and the 10,000′ crater of Haleakala were visible offshore.
Mau’i – Haleakala Crater
Jakobi stayed in the surf just outside the breakers for three hours, boy she really loves the ocean we though but when I joined her I found out she was hovering near a ten year old or so foreign boogie boarder she calls beach boy.
Colleen and Ambiana had a heart to heart mother daughter talk and wrestled in the sand. I rejoined the throng for sunset body surfing but it was still too crowded. Lots of people stayed for sunset only leaving as it got dark.
We gathered our stuff and moved to one of the shelters to cook dinner and then held a pow wow to decide where we would spend the night. Our beach neighbors that day were a backpacking couple from Vancouver and they had spent the night in the scrub land to the south above the cliffs and since we didn’t have a place to spend the night nailed down we thought then why not just camp out someplace near here but now thought why not just sleep here on the beach. It was now empty save for a group of teenagers who were dong the same thing down by the southern cliffs.
We stretched out on the sand on our tarp and let the stars roll over us. It was beautifully clear and there was a small moon slowly sinking into the sea. It was chilly with the wind blowing and I wrapped myself in the tent fly and had tsunami dreams and soon it was morning again and people were filtering onto the beach and the early boogie boarders were already out in the waves. As usual I was up first and took a morning swim before the girls roused and we packed up eating a quick breakfast in the shelter before moving on.
Hapuna Beach
After hiking out of Kealakekua Bay we drove North to Kona to re-supply food and to print out our Waimanu permit then it was North along the lava strewn and newly developed coast towards Hapuna Beach which being a Sunday was PACKED.
We parked outside the park and made our way through the overfilled parking lot to thebeach where we hung in the shade of the southern cliffs.
The water was just as packed as the beach with boogie boarders in the surf line to ride the big swells that were coming in. We joined the throng but after being run over for the nth time I retreated to the beach to read and people watch. Off to the Northwest Mau’i and the 10,000′ crater of Haleakala were visible offshore.
Jakobi stayed in the surf just outside the breakers for three hours, boy she really loves the ocean we though but when I joined her I found out she was hovering near a ten year old or so foreign boogie boarder she calls beach boy.
Colleen and Ambiana had a heart to heart mother daughter talk and wrestled in the sand. I rejoined the throng for sunset body surfing but it was still too crowded. Lots of people stayed for sunset only leaving as it got dark.
We gathered our stuff and moved to one of the shelters to cook dinner and then held a pow wow to decide where we would spend the night. Our beach neighbors that day were a backpacking couple from Vancouver and they had spent the night in the scrub land to the south above the cliffs and since we didn’t have a place to spend the night nailed down we thought then why not just camp out someplace near here but now thought why not just sleep here on the beach. It was now empty save for a group of teenagers who were dong the same thing down by the southern cliffs.
We stretched out on the sand on our tarp and let the stars roll over us. It was beautifully clear and there was a small moon slowly sinking into the sea. It was chilly with the wind blowing and I wrapped myself in the tent fly and had tsunami dreams and soon it was morning again and people were filtering onto the beach and the early boogie boarders were already out in the waves. As usual I was up first and took a morning swim before the girls roused and we packed up eating a quick breakfast in the shelter before moving on.