Green Sand Beach

The Green Sand Beach is located on the Big Island of Hawaii near South Point. South Point it the most southern place in the USA. The green in the green sand is the very rare olivine crystal.

South Point is about a 2 hour drive from Waikoloa Beach Resort, through Kona, past the community of Ocean View and finally 12 miles down a patch work of asphalt one lane road. Once you arrive to the end of the road you have 4 choices. You walk the over 3 miles to the beach, you drive a very high clearance 4x4 vehicle, you pay for someone with a 4x4 vehicle to transport you or you ride your mountain bikes. Duke and I chose option #4.

The scenery along the way is gorgeous. I love to hear the surf pounding along the shore and see the aqua colored water.

Along the way, about 1/4 of the distance to the beach, Duke decided to put his front tire into a very big dip in the road which caused the bike to get stuck and him to take a quick face plant in the dirt with lava rock underneath. Thank goodness the cuts were all superficial. Duke is an amazing trooper and wanted to continue our adventurer after he cleaned his wounds in the ocean. I will spare you the photo of his face and hands.

Since this is a very windy, stormy and most southern point a lot of trash comes ashore. Duke referred to all the small pieces of garage along this one part of the coast as "sea plastic". It was amazing to me how the ocean had broken up all these various plastic containers into perfectly uniform pieces.

All in all it was a great day. The journey to the beach was just as rewarding as seeing the beach itself. It is a place I enjoy visiting each time I am here.

I did enjoy the mountain bike adventure of our day. It felt good to make it all the way up this hill, having to maneuver past all the lava rock and smile for the camera at the same time :))

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