Kaimana Beach

This guide to Kaimana Beach in Honolulu traces the day in December 1902 when David Piikoi, uncle of the future swimming legend Duke Kahanamoku, hauled a transpacific telegraph cable onto this sand from a ship called the Silvertown. It follows the New Year's Day message that reached President Theodore Roosevelt, and the beach's earlier life as Sans Souci, where Robert Louis Stevenson once stayed and praised its air and sunsets. Stand near the shorebreak, where a war memorial pool just offshore has quietly reshaped these currents for decades.