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Just before you get to Sandy Beach, driving North, there is a small Chinese Buddhist shrine. There is a pull off area that barely holds two cars.
If you look over the small wall toward the ocean, in the dirrection the Buddha is lookin and look down you can see that someone has put down highway reflective markers with the industrial cement.
If you climb over the wall and follow those markers, you realize that someone has carved some steps along the path down. If you follow those markers down you find a smaller shrine with the picture of a fisherman and a cement and wood foundation for about a 10x10 building.
If you head toward the ocean and look left you can see that someone has carved a path into the side of the rock along the ledge. Follow this path (its right on the edge of a fall that might kill you with a large drop. The path narrows to about 16" wide. Following the path, you find an alcove carved into the rock with a flat base (looks like another shrine area, unfortunatly some homeless guy is using it as his bathroom). Past that it curves into another even larger alcove that is cut into the rock.
I wasnt sure I could make it any further, so I didnt go in.
What is this?
I mean besides a shrine. Why would someone cut into the rock that is so difficult to get to?
The monument you may be referring to might be a jizo, a Japanese Buddhist statue built for the protection of fishermen and swimmers. Retired Honolulu Fire Dept. captain and beach expert John Clark has written a book on these stone guardians.
The monument you may be referring to might be a jizo, a Japanese Buddhist statue built for the protection of fishermen and swimmers. Retired Honolulu Fire Dept. captain and beach expert John Clark has written a book on these stone guardians.
I've also seen makeshift shrines on the coastline that marked where someone has drowned. These are normally the ones with leis and beer bottles. I guess it's an Aloha and toast to their departed friend.
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