Okay, to get to the green sand beach is not easy. We parked and then had roughly 2.8 miles of a walk (thankfully fairly flat but very dusty) to get there. When it is warm and sunny it isn't ideal because the southern tip of the island is basically a desert with no shady spots, but we were determined and we are so glad we did! This is the first view we had of it.
Then we saw what looked like the insane way to get down there...
But we got this far so we were determine to keep going! We made our way down and it really was not bad. Maybe all that time in the lava tube made us feel like we could take on more... Maybe...
Once we got down, we all wanted to get in the water! It was warm and felt so refreshing!
I kind of went crazy with photos when I wasn't in the water because I was so amazed by where we were!
After lunch we got back in the water and kept an eye for another beach goer who had jumped from the cliff earlier.
And eventually he decided it was time to jump again!
Before we headed back I had to get a photo of the green sand. It was very soft and when it was wet it was almost like mud.
After making the 2.8 mile warm trek back to the car, we were very thankful we were only a 15 minute drive from the house. We had planned for today to be an easy day but again I think we all got more than 16,000 steps. We all showered and enjoyed our normal pizza and a movie. There was a lot of rain coming down after we got back to the house and we kept thinking of the people who were just heading to the green sand beach as we were leaving and what a mess that path would be.
And just as the boys were going to bed at 8:30 p.m. we felt a 3.6 earthquake. Thankfully it was super short and there were no issues but we do know that we smelled sulfur after which was a bit weird.
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