Laie - Pounders Beach
Pounders Beach at Laie Beach Park is one of two nearly identical white sand beaches on the shore of Laie Maloo Bay. The second beach is Kokololio. Pounders Beach is approximately 2,000 feet long and 100 feet wide. It is fronted by a shallow sandbar that drops abruptly to overhead depths at the surf line. Its foreshore is moderately steep, the result of high surf erosion throughout the year. Its backshore consists of low dunes, vegetated by large ironwood trees. The north side of the beach is backed by private beach homes, whereas the south side is backed by the beach park. Koloa Stream terminates at the beach near the parking lot. In addition to the parking lot, facilities at Laie Beach Park include only portable restrooms.
Pounders Beach is a long, beautiful crescent of white sand that is one of Oahu’s popular bodyboarding and bodysurfing beaches. It was named for its pounding shorebreak waves by the students of the Church College of Hawaii in Laie (founded in 1955 and renamed Brigham Young University-Hawaii Campus in 1974), who established the beach as a popular social and recreational site.
A few of the many activities at Laie Beach are bodyboarding, bodysurfing, fishing and swimming.
Pounders Beach is exposed to the open ocean and high surf at all times of the year, but especially during the winter months. Wide fringing reefs border the sides of Laie Maloo Bay but do not block high surf generates strong rip currents and a pounding shorebreak on the shallow sandbar. No lifeguards are stationed at this beach.
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