Description: Maniniholo Dry Cave
Highway 560 just before Mile Marker 9
Across the street from Ha'ena Beach ParkBefore leaving Ha'ena beach Park [see separate entry], we crossed the street to check out the
Maniniholo Dry Cave. The name means "swmming Manini fish" and is about 300 yards deep. You
can't really go anywhere inside because it's just an opening of the towering mountain above you. They say that the opening was wider than it is now but a tsunami in the 1950s almost filled it with sand.
The
Limahuli Stream is in between the dry cave and the wet caves [see separate entry]. We saw a few people washing the sand off their bodies in here but we did not join them because of a sign
that warned waders of the bacteria that could be found in the waters. No, thanks.
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