Hale’iwa Beach Park & Pua’ena Point Beach Park - North Shore Oahu
Hale'iwa Beach Park is located just north of the same-named town and is considered the center of O'ahu's North Shore. This is a lovely and popular stop because to the big grassy park and views of Ka'ena Point. The beach is sandy, narrow, and has a rocky shore bottom, making it unsuitable for swimming. The name Hale'iwa translates to "the home of the frigatebird," a common and interesting bird in Hawai'i that may remain thousands of feet in the air for weeks or even months at a time. This beach is well-known for sunset viewing, and it has a great northwest aspect to delight sunset watchers.
The North Shore is defined by the town of Hale'iwa. It has the sense of a genuine surf town, not one made up for the camera, with old beat-up vehicles topped with surf racks and young Hawaiians who just want to surf or speak to visiting tourist ladies. The North Shore is the birthplace of big-wave surfing, and no other location rivals it in terms of mythology. You may find a better individual wave somewhere, but only at Hale'iwa will you find so many so close together that have the potential to be as big.
There are restrooms, showers, picnic spaces, a basketball court, a volleyball court, a baseball field, and a parking lot. The water is ideal for swimming in the summer, but it becomes very choppy in the winter due to storms in the Bering Sea during that time of year.
