Puaena Point

Puaena Point is at the northeast edge of Haleiwa Harbor on Oahu's North Shore. Surfline describes two different surfing settings: protected water inside the point, where learners visit on small days, and an outer tip where clean, long-period northerly swell can produce larger right-breaking waves toward the harbor channel. Haleiwa lesson operators also use Puaena and describe their teaching stretch as sandy-bottomed. Those accounts concern different portions of the point, whose surf changes substantially with size and exposure.