Turn onto sand island access road. Follow to end to sand island park. Follow the road as far as you can—always staying on the right. When the road ends, you have to turn left into the farthest parking lot. Park near the bathrooms at the end of this parking lot. The OPIHI intertidal site is located a 10min walk to the right. Walk along the beach to right. You will walk over a concrete log located perpendicular to the shoreline. The OPIHI intertidal site has man-made concrete cobbles and is located just past a large concrete block located in shallow water.
Details
Sand
Category
Oʻahu
Location
21.300200, -157.882599
Organisms expected at this location
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_1-300x300.jpg)
Acanthophora spicifera
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_27-300x300.jpg)
Articulated Corallines
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_2-300x300.jpg)
Asparagopsis taxiformis
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_116-300x300.jpg)
Barnacles spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_80-300x300.jpg)
Bleached Coral
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_3-300x300.jpg)
Bornetella sphaerica
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_92-300x300.jpg)
Brittle Star
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_167-300x300.jpg)
Brown Crust
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_29-300x300.jpg)
Bryopsis spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_143-300x300.jpg)
Codium arabicum
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_142-300x300.jpg)
Codium edule
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_5-300x300.jpg)
Codium spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_87-300x300.jpg)
Colpomenia sinuosa
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_58-300x300.jpg)
Conus spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_78-300x300.jpg)
Crab spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_168-300x300.jpg)
Crustose Coralline Algae
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_7-300x300.jpg)
Cyanobacteria spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_59-300x300.jpg)
Dendropoma gregaria
Dictyopteris spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_139-300x300.jpg)
Dictyosphaeria cavernosa
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_8-300x300.jpg)
Dictyosphaeria spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_138-300x300.jpg)
Dictyosphaeria versluysii
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_10-300x300.jpg)
Dictyota spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_65-300x300.jpg)
Echinolittorina hawaiiensis
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_53-300x300.jpg)
Echinometra mathaei
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_54-300x300.jpg)
Echinometra oblonga
Echinometra sp
Gelid spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_35-300x300.jpg)
Gelidiella acerosa
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_12-300x300.jpg)
Halimeda discoidea
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_15-300x300.jpg)
Hypnea spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_61-300x300.jpg)
Isognomon californicum
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_17-300x300.jpg)
Liagora spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_64-300x300.jpg)
Littoraria pintado
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_37-300x300.jpg)
Lobophora variegata
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_101-300x300.jpg)
Lyngbya majuscula
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_20-300x300.jpg)
Neomeris spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_117-300x300.jpg)
Ophiocoma erinaceus
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_21-300x300.jpg)
Padina spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_36-300x300.jpg)
Pterocladiella spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_22-300x300.jpg)
Sargassum spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_123-300x300.jpg)
Snail spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_85-300x300.jpg)
Sphacelaria spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_26-300x300.jpg)
Spyridia filamentosa
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_94-300x300.jpg)
Symploca hydnoides
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_24-300x300.jpg)
Turf spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_166-300x300.jpg)
Ulva spp
Unknown Brown
Unknown Cyanobacteria
Unknown Fuzzy