Beach Bums - Part 76

Diamond Head Beach

Honolulu, Hawaii is famous for Waikiki Beach, above, fronted by luxury hotels, with Diamond Head in the background of this view.  Diamond Head looks like a mountain, but ...

It's actually the crater of an extinct volcano, seen here from above.  Between Diamond Head and the ocean is another beach, Diamond Head Beach.

This is Diamond Head Beach, with a lighthouse on the slopes of Diamond Head.  It's harder to get to than Waikiki Beach, so it's not thronged by millions of tourists.

Some locals use it as a nude beach, although nudity is officially illegal.  Above, Michael Mayer on the sandy part of the beach.

This guy calls himself Keyblade Master.

Here's Kyle Michaels on a more rocky part of the  beach, where authorities are less likely to bother nude beachgoers.

Hawaiian photographer and artist Douglas Simonson, whose art and photos we have seen in previous posts, likes to photograph models nude on Diamond Head Beach, especially in the early morning when the beach is usually deserted.  The rest of today's images are by Douglas Simonson.  This photo is called Antonio Jogging.

Above, Early to the Beach with model Tommy.

Here's Tommy again in Sand Everywhere.  And it does look like Tommy got sand everywhere 😊

A result of that session at the beach: Simonson's drawing above called Tommy Nude at Diamond Head Beach.

Here's Simonson's painting of Rod at Diamond Head Beach.

We end with Simonson's painting of Diamond Head Beach called Shawn's Sunrise Stretch, 2002.