Big Island · Puna

Kapoho Tide Pools Memorial

Wai ʻŌpae

Kapoho Tide Pools Memorial
Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0

The Kapoho Tide Pools Memorial overlook on the rebuilt Hwy 132 marks the location of the Wai ʻŌpae tidepool system, one of the finest natural tidepool…

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How to visit

This is a place of grief. Many people who pull off here have personal memory of the tide pools — childhood summers, family snorkel days, vacations they took every year for decades. Be quiet. Do not bring loud groups. Do not photograph yourself in front of the memorial markers. If you leave an offering, do so the way you would at any memorial. Do not climb on the lava field beyond the marked overlook; the surface is sharp and unstable.

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