The New Insider's Guide to the Best Beaches of the Big Island Hawaii

Newly revised 2017 Plan your trip to the Big Island before you come Here are the top 22 beaches on the Big Island, ranked by a beach lover, a beach connoisseur, who intimately knows the beaches of this magical isle. From a secluded beach at the bottom of the world's most active volcano, accessed only by hiking a desolate frozen lava trail, to a white sand crescent moon beach with a 5-star hotel, designated one of the five most beautiful beaches in the world, you'll find the beach of your dreams here Want to camp on a rugged beach in an uninhabited valley, and sleep to the sound of wild surf? Want to sit atop a sugary white sand dune and watch silvery dolphins leap from turquoise waters into the golden sky in the diamond sunshine? Or maybe you want to swim in an emerald-green bay so close to spinner dolphins that you can hear them joyfully singing to one another? What about finding the best body and boogie-boarding beach in the Islands, where the surf never stops rolling, and whose white sands magically disappear and then reappear? Want to go where wild horses run up and down a black sand beach in a valley of waterfalls? Or would you like to leave your footprints on a bejeweled green sand beach, sparkling with semiprecious stones, on a windswept, steep-cliffed bay, with nothing between you and Antarctica, but the deep blue sea? This guide, written by a beach lover and naturalist who came to Hawaii for its beaches thirty years ago, will take you to these astounding places, and more. They're all waiting for you here, in The New Insider's Guide to the Best Beaches of the Big Island.