Big Beach VS Little Beach

Heads up...lots of pictures with this entry.  Not that any of you mind, the views are truly breath taking.  Ok, so the photo above is Big Beach.  It is too far for a bike ride (maybe not for you Jason Atwater but definitely  for us), so Patrick let us borrow the car for the day and we grabbed out blanket, spf, sunglasses and hit the road.  The water here is by far the bluest I have seen. The shore break was brutal (water looks calm, then suddenly large wave forms and breaks hard on shallow beach) so we decided to head right next door to Little Beach.

Now if you walk down the beach and towards what looks like piles of reef and lava you will notice a steep and narrow pathway that leads up to the top of a cliff. This picture does not make it easy to grasp the concept of the climb, however if you are looking for it you can see people, or parts of people making their way around the rocks to the top.

The climb is worth it!

Now to my favorite part…the descent into Little Beach. I had a warning going in so I feel you the reader/viewer deserve the same. Little Beach is a respectful, friendly, fun loving, NUDIST beach.    Although growing up in a house with 4 girls is probably as close to a nudist colony as you can get, this was my first experience with public nudity.  The thought of men, women, young, and old just chillin', sun bathing, swimming, playing, picnics, bongo drums, etc.... did not sound like a comfortable scenario.  Needless to say, I was not there 3 minutes til I felt freedom!  Talk about liberating. So many people walk around so insecure all day about their bodies.  But while I was catching the waves, snacking, doing my crossword or just watching the group with there frisbee I was not critiquing their bodies or mine. I saw it all, and the first and only thought I had was "we (REALLY) are fearfully and wonderfully made"!

***side note: as we were packing up our things and getting ready to head home to fully clothed civilization, 3 hawaiian women (hawaiian's are NOT SMALL) were being pulled into a rip tide and Ryan and 3 other brave men ran from the beach, jumped in the ocean and saved them.  You would have thought this would have been a large part of this blog but turns out I am my fathers daughter and would much prefer to blog on the controversial happenings instead of the heroic acts of my selfless boyfriend :)