Magic Island

Magic Island, also called ʻĀina Moana, is a man-made peninsula at the east end of Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu, with large seawalls and a shallow lagoon. It was originally planned as a resort area and was later added to Ala Moana Regional Park as open space. Lifeguards watch the lagoon every day from a City tower on the peninsula. There are showers by the comfort station at the entrance to the peninsula, a parking lot of its own, and picnic tables under shade trees. Magic Island is on the south shore, where larger swells can arrive in summer, and the City warns that box jellyfish regularly swarm to south shore waters after the full moon. Check the posted signs and ask the lifeguard before you swim.