We Finally Found THE Beach!

OK, when Steve and I were here 6 1/2 years ago, we went to this beach. Some of you have heard this story many times by now, but some of you haven't, so here it is again:

We bumped down this horrendous 4WD road. (Keep in mind I was newly pregnant with David and a bit grumpy/worried about driving on these roads, despite my OB telling me nothing bad was going to happen to me or the baby by doing this.) At the end of the road, we then had to walk what seemed like miles to get to a beach. It was OK (and in fact, quite beautiful) but I was still grumpy about the bumping and walking, so I really didn't enjoy it.

Then, the naked people arrived. Suddenly, I looked over and there were these two young women frolicking (there's really no other word to describe what they were doing) while this old man took pictures of them and an old woman helped him out (with those photography umbrella things, etc.). We decided they must be doing some kind of photo shoot, and basically tried to ignore them (or, in Steve's case, tried to watch them without being too obvious). Otherwise, we had this beach all to ourselves.

Fast forward to this trip. We've talked about visiting this beach again, but thought it was a different one (see the post on Makalawena for details about that). So, on Tuesday, we head to Kua Bay. It's part of a state park and has a paved access road to it. It's supposed to be really nice, beautiful, etc., but no way do we think it could be THE beach. And it is!

Of course, now that there is a paved road to it, there were considerably more people there. But it was still beautiful, and I enjoyed it much more this time. Plus, since it's only recently become part of the state park, the bathrooms are brand-new, clean and modern. Very nice.

So, cool thing is that we finally found our missing beach; not so cool is that it was the day before we have to leave for home.