I took a break from my quest for waterfalls and instead decided to check out a cave I had heard about on Oahu. I had found a small cave on my Makapu'u Lighthouse Hike but when I say cave I mean "dark, slimy, tunnel in the rock to huge caverns cave." Supposedly this one was much larger.
It's called the sharkman cave since in the early days of Hawaii, a god, born from a shark father and a human mother lived in this cave. Once the sharkman had gotten a taste of meat he lived on the bodies of Hawaiians. He would take human form to lure people into his cave and then kill them and leave them on a large rock in the back of the cave in order to eat in his shark form later. Eventually the Hawaiian people were able to kill the sharkman but the cave still has a taboo aura about it.
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| One of the tunnels |
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| Kristina and Christina |
The cave is rather large but quickly stops short about 300 feet in. There are two small tunnels I couldn't crawl through since I had shorts on and also I have a problem with claustrophobia, so this is an adventure I will have to do with a guy.
It's real name is Makau cave and is almost to the far western point of Oahu just before the Kaena Point State Park hike. Since there was literally no hike involved in with this cave, we decided to check out some of the beaches. The beaches on this side of the island have frequently been referred to as "Tent City" since the homeless used to live here. They have recently been eradicated, thankfully, since this area has some of the most beautiful beaches on the island. We ended up laying out at Yokohama Beach, which is so named since the Japanese used to frequent this beach back in the 40's. It's original name is Keawa'ula. Almost no one was out here on a week day which means we had a long 7 mile stretch of beach to ourself.
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| The last beach before Kaena Point. |
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