Yup. Hapuna is one of the islands' best and most beautiful beaches, taking into account parking and bathroom facilities as well as physical beauty, sandy shoreline, and benign surf. On your next visit, check out Makalawena Beach. Looking at a map, you can see that you can approach it from the north or the south - the south approach is from a gravel parking lot, and it involves walking north to a small bay in front of an abandoned beach house that was owned by the Magoon family until the property was donated to the State as a beach park. The beach is sparsely used, and topless sunbathing and swimming is tolerated unless a park ranger strolls by. But north of the beach house, past fresh water springs, over the rock wall, there is a foot trail across a lava field and through a keawe tree thicket to the south end of Makalawena Beach. The south end is de facto nude, the central area is occasionally nude (topless tolerated), and the north end is topless tolerated. If you have a 4WD, you can take the deeply rutted road from the north as far as the brackish springs at the shoreline, but as a hike, it takes about 45 minutes from the highway. Check it out on Google and images.google.com and on maps.Google.com Satellite View.

~Reggie~