Sandy Beach

Surf Guide

Sandy Beach is located in the cove just on the south end of Wawamalu Beach Park. Like its neighbor, Makapu'u Beach to the north, this spot is usually a bodyboarding or bodysurfing spot. It is a very hollow, heavy and shallow shorebreak, which can be very dangerous. Also like Makapu'u, only bodyboards are allowed here (when patrolled), and the board needs to be finless and under three feet. For surfers, there is a left-hander out off the end of the reef outcropping. There is usually always surf due to the year-round tradeswell. However, surface conditions are often tattered from the persistent onshore trade winds (strongest through summer months). Conditions are best on Southern Hemi swells or east trade-swells with a northwesterly wind.