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Normally I'm polite but I gotta get this out! YOUR TIDE POOLS? PICK UP YOUR TRASH? Are you kidding me? I'm in and out of Kapoho and Champaign ponds nearly daily. I have never seen tourists mistreat the area! You know what I see daily? LOCALS PISSING, LEAVING **** FILLED DIAPERS, DOG CRAP, BEER CANS, TRASH PILED UP IN THE ROCK FIRE PITS PUT UP ON THE WEEKENDS, DOG **** ALL OVER THE WATER LINE AT CHAMPAIGN PONDS, FISHING LINE, HOOKS, CIGARETTE BUTTTS, I COULD GO ONE AND ON!!!!!! I even take video and pics to show others. If you are offended by the truth, ban me for cussing and not being polite. Sorry it is the truth and I love how people hate the truth. Your ponds, you have to be kidding me.
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We have a guest in town looking for good snorkeling spots on the island (not necessarily Puna). Only public-access, drive up to (or near) variety.
Looking for suggestions.
ETA: Should I have started another thread?
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Originally posted by Mac2017
Normally I'm polite but I gotta get this out! YOUR TIDE POOLS? PICK UP YOUR TRASH? Are you kidding me? I'm in and out of Kapoho and Champaign ponds nearly daily. I have never seen tourists mistreat the area! You know what I see daily? LOCALS PISSING, LEAVING **** FILLED DIAPERS, DOG CRAP, BEER CANS, TRASH PILED UP IN THE ROCK FIRE PITS PUT UP ON THE WEEKENDS, DOG **** ALL OVER THE WATER LINE AT CHAMPAIGN PONDS, FISHING LINE, HOOKS, CIGARETTE BUTTTS, I COULD GO ONE AND ON!!!!!! I even take video and pics to show others. If you are offended by the truth, ban me for cussing and not being polite. Sorry it is the truth and I love how people hate the truth. Your ponds, you have to be kidding me.
I have said this for years. It is NOT the tourists who are leaving trash all over the place. Tourists are not at the various hidden and out of the way fishing spots. Those spots are literally trashed.
I call them, "Local Pigs". Sorry if that is offensive, but it is true.
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Thank you sir, at least someone else sees the absolute hypocrisy. I gave up trying to do the right thing. I would go to these places and pick up bags of trash to make a effort to make a difference. Well that proved useless. God forbid I say something, that would just end up with me in the hospital. Yeah, their spots...........laughable.......
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Who, if anyone, does water quality testing for these areas?
And where is that information available. Websites?
I've heard stories over the coconut wireless of contamination from cesspools.
I'm wondering what the facts are.
What bacterias are found and in what concentrations.
Is it generally safe or are there better times. Like at high tide.
or during dry weather as not to have run off.
Thoughts?
One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.
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Hey terracore, ever been to Hookena?
Great snorkeling on the north end of the beach, nice and sandy on the south.
So they can go there to snorkel AND to relax or swim.
But do it EARLY.
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Kahaluu Beach Park on the Kona side is about as easy a snorkeling spot as you can find. Lots of parking, bathrooms and showers, walk out in waist deep water, stick your face in, and wow!
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Water Quality testing is done by Hawaii State SOH, Clean Water Branch
http://health.hawaii.gov/cwb/
Map search for Beach info:
http://emdweb.doh.hawaii.gov/cwb/wqd/viewer/Map.aspx
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Thanks for the suggestions.
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Two sides here, but this is the problem with homes too close to the ocean. Given the shortage of ocean recreation in East Hawaii (even when the former Kalapana-Kaimu area was intact), the entire Kapoho Bay area should have been protected from development decades ago.
Given coming sea level rise and projected population growth in Puna over coming decades, public use of the area will skyrocket.
Critics will object, but here's hoping we can use eminent domain to buy out some of the homeowners. Frank Fasi used eminent domain to expand Kapiolani Park--this practice has a long track record nationwide for park development. It is called pursuing the public interest.
(Timeframe probably 20-plus years so the usual commentators who write "with what money? are right. No $ now, but it will need to happen eventually. Calm, safe swimming is a rare commodity in Puna.)
