Kiholo Bay

Awesome beach, though maybe a bit less... hospitable than others. The road down to the beach area is pretty good, until the last bit at the bottom where you definitely want ground clearance (we left our rental at the top of the hill and hiked down). The beach itself has some sandy bits, but mostly rocky. There's also some fantastically spikey bushes that will easily pierce skin (and a couple that went through flip flops too). Snorkeling is pretty good, though it was pretty choppy when we were there. It's not easy to find a nice entry either (at least where we looked, we didn't check the whole beach), lots of rocks. I think one person of our party of 8 made it out without either scuffs/cuts from the rocks or a few new holes poked from the bushes, but we all had smiles.

Amazing hidden gem! Definitely worth going but bring food, water, etc because it has nothing around. It is a black sand beach so, it has a lot of small rocks. Bring a chair or something thick to lay down on. We even say a huge turtle taking a nap and you can also do some snorkeling. However, the beach is very windy and wavy. You do not pay any fees but there is also no fresh water available and restrooms are chemical ones.

This is quite a bit of a hike from the parking area at the end of the dirt road off the highway. It's definitely shorter taking the hike from the shoulder of the highway, BUT it won't be as pretty. From the parking near the turnabout, you'll head to the beach and follow the shoreline all the way to the cove. You're going to traverse over black pebbled beaches, past some huge mansions and the Bali House (make sure you check out wiki for this), past some private residences at the entrance to the bay, and then across a ton of lava depending on how far you go up into the cove. I wanted to get to the very end to see if it was shallow and easier to see the bottom...it wasn't. The soot from the brackish water makes snorkeling basically pointless. You can see plenty of fish and turtles everywhere, but I wouldn't recommend this area for snorkeling at all. In the bay, and along the beach hike, we easily saw around 20 turtles. They were feeding in the waves in like 6 inches of water, so they were easy to see and photograph, yet it would be pointless to snorkel in 6 inches or a foot of water. Definitely come for the adventurous hike, which is mostly flat but like walking on sand in those pebbles, so I'd recommending bringing a minimum of closed toed shoes. We saw some elderly people even, but they looked pretty hot as they came back from the walk. Definitely don't try this in flip-flops. There is a flooded lava tube really close to the entrance to the beach front, to the right, but don't enter it because entering lava tubes is illegal now. I highly recommend heading into the greenish-blue cove and do some rock jumping off the lava!

Be prepared to get a leg workout! The trail is a soft gravel and pebble surface. To get to the lagoon you're gonna have to do some bouldering. The varied terrain is really interesting, but you have to pay attention and hike with both hands free. The color contrast of lava rock and blue water is striking. Fun watching the locals fish. Plenty of turtles!