Alahanui Park - Hot Spring
1 review for Alahanui Park - Hot Spring
Take Highway 130 south from Pahoa. When it dead ends at Highway 137, turn right. The Park is located on the left, just past Mile Marker #10.
Getting here was sort of surreal. On the day I went it was raining fairly hard. The road to get here is located maybe 30-40 yards away from the ocean. The beach is very flat and there is no retaining wall between the beach and the road. With it raining and high tide coming, the sea water was coming onto the road and it felt like you were driving underwater.
This is a fairly good sized park, with picnic tables, BBQ's and public restrooms. Inside the park lies one of the natural hot springs located on the island. There is a lifeguard on duty.
The natural hot spring is about a half acre large and is shallow enough in most spots to stand in. The hot spring is built inside of a wall. The water is warmed by volcanic activity below the surface. There is a small walled inlet that allows water from the ocean to cool it down. You may also see fish swimming alongside you within the hot spring. It would probably be ill advised to go swimming in the ocean outside of the hot spring as it is very rocky and turbulent.
The reason why I only gave it 3 stars is that on the day I went, the hot spring was very dirty, but then again, it was raining pretty hard and windy.
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