North Shore & Haleʻiwa

Haleʻiwa Town

Surf-town strolling, garlic shrimp and turtles napping on the sand

⚠ Keep 3 m from the turtles

Hours

Most shops open daytime only (varies by shop)

Tickets

Free (food and some parking extra)

Address

Haleiwa, the surf town on the north coast, with shops and food trucks along Kamehameha Highway

Cut across the middle of the island for about an hour and you reach Haleiwa, a surf town of low wooden storefronts. The routine is set: browse the surf shops and the Patagonia store, queue for Matsumoto Shave Ice, then eat garlic shrimp at Giovanni's truck. A little further east is Laniakea Beach, where with luck a sea turtle will be dozing on the sand. Winter brings huge waves and the surfers who chase them; in summer the sea flattens out enough to snorkel at Shark's Cove.