Here's one of those spliced-together panoramas of the sand dune at the Point. If you are not viewing this in slide show mode, please click on "view album" in the upper left of this page, push the F11 key, and then click on the "slideshow" button
We started our hike taken the southern approach just past Yokohama Beach State Park. The road ends just south of the Northwestern-most point of Oahu where an Air Force tracking stations resides.
We started at Yokohama Beach State Park. This is what their parking lot looks like.
these pictures were taken on our way North along the far northwest corner of Oahu moving toward Ka'ena Point. The green is the State Park. The tracking station is up on a ridge to the left of this picture.
Sometimes te teenagers drive their cars off the cliffs creating rust spots, if not trouble for their parents
This ledge was obviously reinforced by maintenance crews, probably in the days of the Railroad
You'll see this rock on the way back with a bunch of people in it
Here's two wrecks. Can you tell which one is organic? They're both pretty tire-d.
In a few spots, boards have been added to help navigate a washed-out trail
We could have stopped here, but didn't
Here's a cave by the side of the trail
Nan and Jane were intrepid explorers (or were they just looking for cavemen having had their fill of sensitive educated spouses?)
At this point, the trail is quite treachorous
Note the albatrosses in the next few pictures
The path is restricted to protect the birds. Ka'ena point is ahead where the Coast Guard signal light rises.
The signal light
This is some type of shelter in the shadow of the coast guard tower -- not sure what it does although it may have been tipped over. One page says this is the old coast guard station and that seems to make as much sense as any.
Swimmers in the pools just off Ka'ena point. The pools seemed to be sheltered from the high surf of the North shore.
The trail now moves directly east toward the sacred rock
Nan is sleeping on the old station that was tipped over near the Coast Guard signal tower
The base of the old Coast Guard light with “petroglyphs”
Leina-a-ka'uhane rock --leaping place for souls (Oahu Revealed p. 93) layered sandstone rock sacred to ancient Hawaiians. When your soul left your body at death in Oahu, the soul eventually ended up here where it would climb the rock, face he ocean, and leap into the company of its ancestors; at that moment, the person died.
Stan and Nan were telling us about geocaching -- an we met a couple on a geocaching trip who snuck this capsule out from under a napping Nan
A scenic arch...
...made even more scenic by a wet Jane. Her new raincoat was safe and dry at the condo.
While we were on the point, the surf picked up!
Here's the four of us! Stan and Nan joined Pietrina and Dick for a quite different week in France in 2000. They invited us to share their condo in Oahu so that they and Jane could get to know each other.
Funny how the rocks look different on the return trip.
We stopped on the way back at Makaha beach just a few miles to the south to see our first surfers of the week (not counting the amateurs on Waikiki)
