More footage of Pounders Beach Park, just a few minutes drive from Hale Ko'olau. Pack a cooler and spend the day on this wonderful beach.
Because of its easy access and its great bodysurfing waves, Pounders is a popular weekend beach. The beach used to be called Pahumoa, after a local fisherman who arranged the local hukilau (the catching of fish in a net) and made sure that the elderly living in the area received a portion of the catch. The name change occurred in the 1950s, when a group of students at the Church College of the Pacific (now Brigham Young University-Hawaii) called the beach "Pounders" after the crushing shore break that provided brief but spectacular bodysurfing rides; the nickname stuck. Source: Frommer's
Thats my favorite beach on the island.
noblerthenyou 2 years ago