swimming beaches

[DTisme]

Ditto on the pool in Pahoa. Free, too. And showers.

[robguz]

A strong swimmer who swims daily would have no problem at Kehena and people swim laps at the warm pond, although the problems were mentioned. If you are considering anywhere from Kaimu to Opihikao in Puna you can swim daily at Kehena with a short drive at worst. Anywhere else in Puna besides Kapoho with the warm pond, champagne pond, and the tide pools, you'll be a ways from any convenient ocean swimming.

[Orchidlandguy]

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Originally posted by akmike

Thank you for the information. Where is "secret beach." I read that it was near Kehena but it didn't mention swimming.

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It is a secret as to where it is. If it was answered then it wouldn't be a secret and would be in the blue book (Hawaii Revealed) and all the tourists would come. The best beaches and best beachcombing are all secrets and hopefully stay out of that damn blue book. All the places I used to frequent 4WDing are now flooded with folks carrying the blue book.
I swim at Kehena daily now for my physical therapy. The days it is too painful to climb up and down the steep cliff side there I swim at Pahoa public pool, real nice pool and deseerted for the most part. Nobody is there.
If I was really into swimming, I wouldn't buy in Puna. Go to Kona side and you have the best swimming beaches. Altho Hilo has some good ones also. Not Puna.

[DaVinci]

Wear fins at Kehena. A strong swimmer with fins on will have no problems.

[bananahead]

"Secret Beach" is only for getting sunburned on black sand, it is exactly between Kehena and Seaview, on an old lava walking trail down from red road between the ironwood trees there... beautiful place to get sun and you will be by yourself 99% of the time (even if it was in the "blue book" lol), but no way to get out of water if you are stupid enough to try for swim there. Kaimu new beach is also dangerous for swimmer w/o fins, Kehena is swimable 80% of the time for most who know how to swim in current and small shore breaks, but I also would recommend a fin or set of flippers... also recommend to stay to the right side next to the rocks as the rocks knock down the current there.... Left side looks all easy for a newbie, but they will learn.... its not
aloha

PS like all true black sand beach (ie sand is less than 75 years old and is made from hot lava fracturing when it hits the cold ocean) Kehena will be gone in 15 years so you better get your swim on soon!
True Black Sand Beach only last 25-50 years before they get washed into deep water and disappear forever... other beaches with dark sand are not true black sand beaches (ie Waipio with sand that is river erosion of 120,000 year old Kohala Mt.)
a white sand beach is always growing as most of the sand is really Parrotfish Poo (a single Parrot fish makes over a ton of white sand/year ....eating and crapping out coral all day long

save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[Hunt Stoddard]

More beaches and/or tidal pool swimming areas could be created artificially with blasting, though I'm pretty sure this would be a no-go politically speaking. Kind of ridiculous in a way, since every lava flow causes far more damage than any stick of dynamite could wreak. I often swim at Richardson's park in Hilo, off it's tiny 30 ft. beach. I often think that I could probably widen it by double with a few sticks of dynamite.