Kailua Beach Park

This guide to Kailua Beach Park on Oahu's windward coast follows a thirteen-year-old named Robby Naish, dragging a borrowed sailboard across this same sand in the mid-1970s because his own kept breaking apart. It traces how the beach's gentle slope and steady trade winds became his training ground on the way to a championship career. Look out at the two green islets offshore, Na Mokulua, before the afternoon wind fills the bay with color.