Hidden Beach Day

We started out the day at the Dole Plantation near Schofield Barracks in the center of Oahu. We opted out of all the tours and the giant hedge maze. It was a bit rainy out. We did visit the huge gift shop. Sorry no pineapples. They average out to $22 each to ship them home.

They have very nice grounds here. It would be a nice place to take kids on a visit.


Next we moved up to the North Shore area and drove to the "end of the road" literally. You might think Oahu would be devoid of 4X4 trails, but not so. We found a great Jeep trail. So did lots of locals. We walked it to the 15th telephone pole after the gate. This is out toward Ka'ena Point. The walk is along the cliffs you can see above. As always, the pictures fail to capture the true beauty of this area. It was about a 1 1/2 mile walk. Then we found what we were looking for.

This beach was all ours. Granted it was a cool cloudy day. There were lots of beach goers up and down the coast. This little beach is very narrow, but the sand was awesome, very clean, and secluded.

I turned around at one point and took a picture of the two sets of foot prints on the beach. They were ours. This was a hike to get to, but I would suggest anyone wanting there own private area to make the hike. Bring your beach gear and make a day of it. At the bottom is a video of the surf coming in from this beach.

At one point we were sitting about 3 feet above the water, nice and dry. We started looking in the sand at all the shells. Jennifer was searching and I had just found a mutilcolored tooth about 1 inch long. As I turned to Jennifer to show her my find, a wave over took us. We got soaked. Jennifer's jacket had 1/2 pound of sand in the pockets when it was all over. Luckily, none of the cameras were damaged. Lucky!

Kyle: this one is for you. The free-range chickens all over the island seem very relaxed. They must know you are not here. Some of the most colorful rosters I have ever seen. Sorry no picture of the rosters. I had to sneak this picture. We look like hicks as it is. Being caught taking pictures of chickens on Hawaii would be too much.

We spent the rest of the day driving. We came into the area where Jurassic Park and 50 First Dates was filmed. Very tropical and mysterious looking.

Tomorrow is beach day. We are going to take a couple of short breaks from the beach, but we will be there most of the day.