Heʻeia Pier


Just north of He‘eia State Park, off the Kamehameha Hwy, is one of the Windward Coast’s only small-boat harbors. Watch the comings and goings of local boat owners; on weekends they head out to the ‘sandbar,’ a raised spit in the bay that becomes a mooring place for people to cut loose and party.


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