2021 marks the 10
th year that alcohol has been banned at the Laka o Ahu Sandbar in Kāne’ohe Bay over the Memorial Day weekend. Officers from the DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement (DOCARE) patrolled He‘eia Kea Small Boat Harbor, the launch point for the sandbar, and the popular sandbar itself by boat and jet ski.
In the middle of the bay one officer instructed three teen-aged boys to get down off a channel marker. The boat they were on was stationary in the channel which is not permitted. Back on the sandbar officers also told a jet ski operator that he was in violation of the rules by having his vessel up on the sandbar.