After leaving the lighthouse , which you can see perched on the cliff on the top left horizon, we drove down to Secret beach to hike to the lava pools. I had taken Phil to Queen's bath earlier but in the summer the opulent and lush pool becomes a dehydrated stagnant puddle, the surf is not strong enough to flush it out and refill it. The lava pools at Secret beach are also nice and they do stay fresh and filled even in the summer surf. But as you can see in this photo, the surf was more winteresque than summeree.

This is one of the first lava pools you come across in the long hike (see strip of tan beach sand on the far distance, that is where you start from) and it is the one most tourists swim in. However, the better scenery is a rock climb behind me from where I stood to take this picture.