Makapuu Beach Park

This stretch of windward coast gets its name and its lighthouse from two very different stories the guide follows side by side: a Tahitian goddess Hawaiians said watched over the headland with eight bright eyes, and a steamship that ran onto the reef in the dark in 1906, embarrassing the shipping companies into building a light here. You'll hear about the enormous French lens installed on the cliff above and how it compares to others in American lighthouses. Stand on the sand and watch how far out the waves start breaking before you go in.