Post by: Britta Gehres

I want to tell you something about the beautiful beaches I have visited on O’ahu. Even in the blazing heat I found myself a spot were I could almost spend a whole day. But please be aware that there might be some people who don’t grant you anything in life. I’ll come to that later…and now, back to the Beach! 

In my opinion every beach is different and if you’re lucky enough to find a beach for your own just stay there and appreciate the sound of the ocean and the breeze in the palm trees.

Makua Beach is one of the most northwestern and one of the remote beaches you’ll find on Oahu. Besides some fisherman you’ll have the beach to yourself most of the time. It feels like an untouched world as even the mountains in the background are untouched. Please be aware that you can’t walk far into the ocean as the ground gets steep really fast. We only got to this beach once as we were busy discovering the rest of O’ahu but this is a really nice beach if you want to be on your own and far away from tourists. We got there by car and I guess so should you as it’s a struggle going there by Bus but for the first time going into the ocean on Hawaii it was kind of a perfect spot. 

You can easily go there by bus when taking No. 57 (Kailua – SeaLife Park) to Kalanianaole Hwy + Opp Castle Medica and from there on No. 70 to Lanikai. Get out at Alapapa Drive. From there on walk across the street and go straight through Kaelepulu Drive until you arrive at Mokulua Drive. While walking along Mokulua Drive to the right you’ll notice small path which will lead you to the beach. 

Lanikai itself is a really expensive neighborhood. There are a lot of vacation rentals. Due to increasing popularity this beach might have a lot of visitors during the weekend but you’ll be good to go during the week. This beach was one of the first beaches we went to as the Pillbox Trail isn’t far away from it. And what’s better than taking a refreshing dip into the ocean after you’ve had an amazing hike, hey?! 

This beach gives you almost everything from kayaking to the Mokulua Islands to snorkeling as there are a few rocks in the water where you can see some Hawaiian coral life going on. 

Lanikai itself is a really expensive neighborhood. There are a lot of vacation rentals. Due to increasing popularity this beach might have a lot of visitors during the weekend but you’ll be good to go during the week. This beach was one of the first beaches we went to as the Pillbox Trail isn’t far away from it. And what’s better than taking a refreshing dip into the ocean after you’ve had an amazing hike, hey?! 

Kuhio Beach

Kuhio Beach, in my opinion, is one of the most visited beaches on Hawaii. Located in Waikiki Bay, O’ahu’s most famous bay it’s as touristy as ever. I mean, who doesn’t want to go out of the hotel standing on a beach straight away?! We only went there once as it was just too full of people and there was not really a place to sit. Due to erosive force of the ocean the beach was about to completely disappear a few years back so Honolulu decided to pump some sand offshore onto the beach. When it comes to Sunsets this beach is a good spot as the sun slowly goes down on the right side of the horizon.

One of the attractions of the beach is the famous Duke Kahanamoku Statue. He is probably the most famous surfer of Hawaii and it’s said that he even brought surfing to Australia. He’s also called “the Father of Modern Surfing”.

Due to the fact that this beach is really long you don’t have to worry about other people as they spread out. You can see a lot of locals doing their famous barbecue and if you’re lucky listen to some music from their ukulele’s. The water itself is really shallow so you can walk a while until you have to start swimming.  Due to a small coral reef the waves which are crashing down on the shore aren’t huge at all so it’s a nice spot to just bobble around. 

As lucky as we were on this day some turtles paid us a visit while we were swimming in the ocean. As unlucky as we were we didn’t bring the GoPro which was a good thing on the other hand as you have to appreciate some things on your own. We pay tons of money for the best picture ever but in the end you’ll never have a picture taken the way your eyes can see.  The water is really shallow and as you can see on the picture I attached the waves are really small. Unfortunately I didn’t take tons of pictures of this beach as we left most of our stuff in the car. 

Honestly I didn’t pay much attention to them as some days before other people were sitting there while everyone was minding their own business. So I got up, placed both our backpacks a bit further down so that we could easily see them and went into the water to join my companion. Once I was in the water turning my head back to the shore my mood changed immediately. My companion swam back to the shore running up the hill looking for our backpacks. They were gone and with them the boys which were sitting next to us. I ran out of the water running up the hill through the woods trying to find the boys. My companion was running around the beach trying the same and even a life guard helped us asking everyone on the beach if they saw something suspicious. After an hour maybe we came back to the lifeguard booth. Our feed were covered in blisters as the sand was so hot during midday and I started to recognized that it’s all gone and that we probably never ever going to see our stuff again. Not only our new mobile phones and my smartwatch was gone (which we bought with our hard earned money from digging in shit all day) but also memories. Memories in the shape of Polaroid pictures which we had taken wanting to decorate our rooms with it. Memories in form of my backpack which I had bought the first day I’ve landed in Australia. I cried almost a whole day through and the last week we spend on Hawaii I didn’t wanna leave the house or I was just really afraid while walking outside as not only stuff was gone but also my faith in humanity and if I’m honest, I’m still not over it. Due to the fact that our hosts were just the most beautiful human beings they managed to give us some money which we could transfer to their PayPal accounts before as even our drivers license, credit and bank cards were gone. 

So please do me a favor and always take care of your stuff and if you’re on Hawaii. I would also recommend you not to put valuable things into your rental car as some people might even break the cars open only to get to your stuff. 

I hope you still enjoyed my post about the beautiful beaches on O’ahu. I know there are more but we just settled down at the ones we liked the most. Thank you for reading and if you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment or text me!

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