Ka’ena Point

A few weeks ago we tried to drive up to Ka’ena point only to discover that you now need a permit to drive on the dirt road down towards the point.  We decided to try and we got one.  So today we rented a Jeep and headed out for adventure!  The road was crazy and muddy lol!  I’ve never driven on anything like it but it was super fun.  We went to the road’s end and then worked our way back stopping to explore the coast line.  The boys were obsessed with “fossil” finding.  Still need to figure out exactly what they were finding.  There were shells and coral stuck in rock. Almost as if the lava suspended things.  Tomorrow’s research will be to figure out exactly what it was.   Here are a lot of pictures from our day....enjoy!


Ted opening the lock on the gate. 


First stop. 






I felt like we could be on a Jeep commercial lol!




The shells and coral embedded in the rock. 


Explorers






Finnegan taking a turn driving 






G’s turn!


Crazy Ted find which we learned when we got home is a type of sea urchin called a shingle urchin.   In hawaiian it is called a Kaupali which means “cliff clinging”. 


It’s underside.  


What better place for them to keep their collection. 


Last beach stop


One last pic for the commercial lol 


Digging more stuff out of rocks.  They didn’t look up for a solid 30 min!


The last bit of dirt road. 

We headed towards Haleiwa for dinner and caught a beautiful sunset looking back at Ka’ena Point. 







What better way to end this amazing day...walking down to our beach to see the super moon!



Ted heads back to work tomorrow after a wonderful Christmas/New Year’s staycation!   Night night everyone!

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