Ho'okena Beach Park

A co-worker of Racheal had recommended Ho'okena Beach as a great place to go for camping.  Though we didn't bring any camping gear here, we decided to check it out anyway.  It's on the southwest side of the island and 2 miles off the main road.  The 2 miles consist of a narrow "2 laned" road that switchbacks all the way down to the ocean.  We had went there awhile ago on one of our first drives to Kona and decided to go down last weekend again to let the kids "burn off some energy".  And boy are we glad we did. 

The sand is a grayish color with a mixture of white and black sand but it is fine and soft.  Henry loved digging in the sand and making a sand castle.  Anika enjoyed searching for shells and looking for small hermit crabs.  She caught 3 of them in the strainer and liked watching them try to climb out.  She put them in the water still in the strainer and claimed that they were wrestling.  Then she proceeded to make them their own aquarium adding little shells/rocks and sand. 

I think they would have been fine staying there all day instead of just the hour we were there.  We will definitely go back and frolic there again.