Aki's beach is located on the West side of Oahu island. Unlike other beaches on Oahu, Aki's beach is a small beach at the corner of a small neighborhood. If you are looking for green sea turtles on Oahu, this is the place to go and it is guaranteed that you will find sea turtles lying on the beach. If you go to the so called "Turtle Beach" at Laniakea beach on the North shore, you will barely see any sea turtles. It all depends on your luck. Aki's Beach is the one you should go to find sea turtles.
So we head to Aki's Beach in the afternoon. The beach is quite far from Waikiki. It took us an hour to drive to there. Aki's Beach is North of Makaha. Once we passed Makaha, we made a left turn to drive into the neighborhood. We had to find a good spot to park the car on the street because many houses indicated "Beware of Dog" on the wall. So we did not want to park the car there. We ended up parking the car further down the street and walk back.
The path to the beach is in between two houses. Once we walked through the path, the first thing we saw are 2 big sea turtles! The sea turtles look lazy and relaxing! They were enjoying the glaring sun so much! The sea turtles were also trying to get the hot sand on their body! We stood about 15 feet away from them so that we don't scare them or surprise them. Of course, I brought my zoom lens just for taking photos of them! There were also other people enjoying the time at the beach as well!
After watching the turtle doing sun bath for about 30 minutes, one of the turtle started moving towards the ocean! Looks like he was getting too hot! The turtle was moving very slowly towards the ocean. It took him 2 minutes to get into the ocean and swim away!
Overall, this is a nice and tidy beach to enjoy a good afternoon sun! Just make sure you stay enough distance away from the turtles.
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