Our project continues. Almost every morning we are out early walking the beaches of the North Shore . If one looks at a map the North Shore of Oahu is really sort of the northwest shore and is about sixteen miles long from just north of Turtle Bay to Kaena Point. This extent of beach is broken up by a few rocky points and bays like Turtle Bay, Kewala Bay, Shark’s Cove, Waimea Bay, Haleiwa Bay and a couple of rivers. As a result, there isn’t sixteen miles of continuous walking and because much of the beach is lined with homes we have to leapfrog from access point to access point and backtrack to points where we’ve left off the previous day’s walk.
Today we made it onto the Mokule’ia stretch. 
This photo looks towards the north for a mile or two,
then turn around and looks south for another long uninterrupted reach of sand with no impediments save for stretches that seem to attract man made detritus, mostly plastic, that may have washed in from boat fleets located thousands of miles away. Plastic is hazardous to the sea turtles who seem to be thick in this area. Periodically, big turtle heads poke out of the sea for a quick breath before returning to munch on weedy rocks just beneath the wave lap.
At our termination point today was a beach ironwood. The beach gets excavated under the tree exposing the roots. But the iron wood seems to battle on. A very hardy tree.
Most of this beach is populated with a variety of homes. Some are nice. Some are junk. All are subject to wave and weather. 
This one, under construction, would be appealing if you were concerned about weather. Concrete house on concrete pillars. Ought to be able to take a pretty big wave.
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