Kailua Beach
Kailua Beach Park is located at the south end of Kailua Beach, a crescent-shaped, white sand beach more than two miles long and from 50 to 150 feet wide. The portion of the beach fronting the park Is approximately three-quarters of a mile long. The ocean bottom fronting the beach slopes gently to overhead depths across a series of shallow sandbars. Small, one- to two-foot-high trade wind-generated surf breaks on the sandbars year-round, primarily off the center and north end of the beach. Popoia Island, or Flat Island, as it is most commonly known, is a small, flat limestone island approximately one-quarter mile off the south end of the park. Surf breaks on a shallow reef on the south side of the island. Facilities in the park include restrooms, showers, picnic tables, a boat ramp, and parking. Lifeguards are on duty daily.
If you are a one-stop shopper for ocean recreation activities, Kailua Beach Park is the place for you. It has a long, beautiful beach where you can swim, surf, or sail. With the trade winds blowing year-round, Kailua is one of Oahu’s premier windsurfing sites, and a number of shops in town offer rentals and lessons. Novice bodyboarders, bodysurfers, and surfers can always find a shorebreak wave to the north of the park. Bigger waves providing longer rides break alongside Popoia Island. These waves are surfed by just about everyone with a wave-riding craft: surfers, bodyboarders, ocean kayakers, surf skiers, one-person canoe paddlers, six-person canoe paddlers, twin-hulled boat sailors, and windsurfers. Popoia Island is the “turn buoy” for the annual Popoia Swim, a rough water swim that begins in the park, circles the island, counterclockwise and returns to the park. The Waikiki Swim Club holds the swim annually in June. Kailua Beach Park and Kaelepulu Canal, the waterway that bisects the park, are heavily used for outrigger canoe paddling. Outrigger canoe regattas and twin-hulled sailing regattas are held at the park.
A few of the many activities at Kailua Beach Park are Beachcombing, boating, bodyboarding, bodysurfing, fishing, kayaking, outrigger canoe paddling, surfing, swimming, and windsurfing.
The windward side of Oahu, Hawaii which includes all of Kailua Beach, is known for its stinging jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war. If you are susceptible to allergic reactions from bee and other insect stings, you should expect the same reactions from man-of-war stings. Check with a lifeguard before going in the water to find out if it is a man-of-war day. If no lifeguard is on duty, look at the debris line on the beach and see if there are any man-of-war in it. If there are, you may want to reconsider going in the water
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