Salt Pond Beach Park near Hanapepe

Located near Hanapepe, this inviting park is a great place for relaxing and its white sand beaches are perfect for swimming and sunbathing. That's what you'll notice first. Then you might notice something not quite distinguishable. That would be the salt ponds. During the summer for generations, Hawaiian families have evaporated seawater in pans dug out of red soil to produce natural sea salt. The salt is bagged and used for cooking and for medicinal purposes. The right to mine salt from the ponds is passed down from generation to generation, and if you visit the park at the right time, you could see saltmakers working the ponds.

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