IRT "Kuhio Beach waters need to be tested"
Guess what Theresa?  It's not Strange.  The breaks and reef went smell laddat even in the late 1950s to us surfers.  Was so hauna that we went paddle from Queens to Kewalo Basin for surf the day, and then paddle back!  Was real surfers, not the "cannot surf good so go teach and paddle canoes with the tourist" kine beachboys.  When Kewalo's got more oily and fishy, we stayed "in-between" at the bitchin' break now buried underneath Magic Island.  So, the "In Betweens" of today is not the original 1960 "Betweens" - a super fast hollow tube as good as Pipeline's was, but ALWAYS breaking right and left same time.   All for the sake of escaping the Waikiki stench of sewage with tanning oil garnish.  Only in the Summers when Waikiki broke 20 feet plus outside was there no hauna, gremmies, and tourist doo-doo in the water.   You right.  Waikiki reefs have ceased being for locals and reserved for tourist spending money.  We gotta test the water.