A few miles west of Nakalele Point lies Lipoa Point, reached via an easy hike across old pineapple fields now covered in tall grasses. There was a golf course here in the 1930s, but it was abandoned decades ago and only a few building foundations remain. Our directions cited the trailhead as at the end of a red dirt road just east of Honolua Bay – we found a road, though gated, and parked, figuring our walk would be a little longer since we couldn’t drive all the way up the road. There was another car here as well, so we packed up and headed north across the fields. We had gone maybe half a mile before encountering a couple and their young son coming back up the road, snorkelers who asked us about a cove they had been directed to – our information only mentioned natural arches at Lipoa Point and nothing about snorkeling, so we bid them aloha and continued north. However, our road started to bend to the west, not to the east as the map indicated – furthermore, the road/trail we could see ahead seemed to follow the alignment of another trail noted on our map, and we realized we’d taken the wrong dirt road. We thought we could continue along this path and reach the point easily enough, but Chris couldn’t remember if he locked the car or not, so we headed back to the gate, burning about 3/4 of a mile for the roundtrip. The other car was gone when we got there, and it was not to be found at the next roadend to the west (this may have been red dirt at one point, but it’s now covered in grey gravel). We resumed our hike from this trailhead, and found that the trail matched our map perfectly – within a few minutes, we found the trail down to the bluffs to the point itself, the blufftop covered with catcus patches (we think these must not be native but were planted as ornamentation for the golf course). The point itself was nice, no arches to be seen anywhere but plenty of evidence of molten lava flowing around and between small patches of older rock, creating an effect where the old appears to be inlaid among the new. We could see Kapalua to the west, and it was Jane’s turn to climb the small “summit” block at the tip of the point. What we did discover was the gorgeous cove to the east of the point, a snorkeler’s paradise with calm, shallow water – we hope that family eventually found it. The return trip was more easy walking – upon driving back to the main road, we parked for a few minutes at a turnout overlooking the beautiful Honolua Bay, another snorkeling destination, before continuing west to Kapalua.