The Kapoho tide pools are gone. They were the Waiʻōpae Tidepools Marine Life Conservation District on the Puna coast, next to the Vacationland subdivision at Kapoho, and a lava flow filled them, the reef and the water around them. The same flow filled Kapoho Bay and covered the Kapoho Beach Lots and Vacationland. Before the flow, the Division of Aquatic Resources described a shallow basalt ridge where the waves broke, rich coral growth and many young fish, which made the pools a fish nursery. The lava formed new state-owned land seaward of the old coastline.
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Kapoho Tide Pools (historic)Kapoho Tide Pools, Hawaii 96778, USA