Make your Kid the most popular one on the beach

Go to any Walmart or any fishing store in Hawaii and get a net. The best ones are the small to medium size ones with a red net and a polished wooden handle. Look around the snorkel and fishing sections back in sporting goods. They run from $3.00 to $6.00. Then, buy or find some sort of a clear plastic container. When you go to the beach, set up your container with some ocean water, and set your kid out to catch small fish and crabs and shrimp and put them in the container.

When on a sandy beach, you can usually find small fish in the surf very close to shore, washing in and out with the waves. If there are any rocks around you want to go to them, turn them over, and quickly scoop out what was underneath them.

Try not to keep the fish and crabs too long so they survive the experience OK, and release them back where you got them from.


Joe with a net and a crab skin he 'caught' at Kalapana area tide pool