{"id":591,"date":"2015-06-28T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2015-06-28T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:20:33","slug":"best-beach-in-oahu-hawaii-a-team-road-trip-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/best-beach-in-oahu-hawaii-a-team-road-trip-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Beach in Oahu, Hawaii &#8211; A-team road trip 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been here in Oahu for 6 days and have checked out a ton of beaches.<br \/>\nSo far, we feel the Kailua Beach \/ Lanikai is the best beach.<\/p>\n<p>It has very clear water, lots of soft sand, and lots of shade trees in case you need them.<br \/>\nThe mountains are right behind you and you feel like you are on the beach in Jurassic park without the dinosaurs, of course.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_592\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-592\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5648.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-592\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5648-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kailua Beach, Oahu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kailua Beach, Oahu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The water is pretty calm and super clear.\u00a0 Snorkeling was great here.\u00a0 Not a ton of sea life, but very clear water.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_593\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-593\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-593\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5649-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kailua Beach, Oahu\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-593\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kailua Beach, Oahu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Enjoying the soft sand and clear water.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_595\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-595\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5669.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5669-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kailua Beach Pano\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kailua Beach Pano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The water really is that blue \/ green.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-596\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/home\/apluscom\/roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_5670-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Kailua Beach view from the water\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kailua Beach view from the water<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From the water, you can see a forest right on the beach with beautiful mountains right behind the trees.<br \/>\nYou have lots of shade if you get tired of the sun.Lots of restrooms on site with showers to wash off.<\/p>\n<p>We felt it was a beach just for kids.\u00a0 The three of us were surrounded by lots of other kids.<br \/>\nFootball and bbqs were going on all over the beach. We will definitely visit this one again before we have to leave Oahu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been here in Oahu for 6 days and have checked out a ton of beaches. So far, we feel the Kailua Beach \/ Lanikai is the best beach. It has very clear water, lots of soft sand, and lots of shade trees in case you need them. The mountains are right behind you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/best-beach-in-oahu-hawaii-a-team-road-trip-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best Beach in Oahu, Hawaii &#8211; A-team road trip 2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17,21,22,24,23,20],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-epicsummerroadtrip2015","tag-hawaii","tag-kailuabeach","tag-lanikaibeach","tag-natureboys","tag-yonderkids","tag-yonderoahu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}