Coronavirus closes Honolulu’s parks but visitors still show up
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Visitors traversed Koko Head trail on Thursday despite the park’s closure. Mayor Kirk Caldwell had declared on the previous day that all city parks, park facilities, campgrounds and botanical gardens were closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.2/16
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A bodyboarder caught a wave at Sandy Beach on Thursday. Lifeguards were pulled from their watches due to the lack of protective gear against COVID-19. Mayor Kirk Caldwell had declared on the previous day that all city parks, park facilities, campgrounds and botanical gardens were closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.3/16
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A group of visitors who had bypassed a closed gate walked up the main driveway at Koko Head District Park on Thursday.4/16
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Ezra Cox, 13, launched from a ramp made of sand at Sandy Beach on Thursday.5/16
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Holland Mak, Ima Linzag and Dustin Kirkham from Dallas, Texas, were dropped off at the entrance to Ala Moana Regional Park as the access road from Ala Moana Boulevard was blocked on Thursday morning.6/16
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Honolulu closed all city parks including Ala Moana Regional Park on Thursday. People were still using the park and beach even though the access road into the park was closed. Some vehicles just drove around it to enter the park.7/16
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Visitors traversed Koko Head trail on Thursday despite the park’s closure. Mayor Kirk Caldwell had declared on the previous day that all city parks, park facilities, campgrounds and botanical gardens were closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.8/16
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Tattered caution tape which was put up by the Honolulu police at Lanai lookout blew in the wind after it was torn down by visitors.9/16
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The lifeguard tower at Sandy Beach was shuttered on Thursday.10/16
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Honolulu closed all city parks including Ala Moana Regional Park on Thursday. But people were still using the park and beach even though the access road was closed.11/16
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Warning signs at Sandy Beach alert beachgoers of the risks which the spot is notorious for.12/16
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A sign attached to the front gate at Koko Head District Park advised the general public of park closures. Most visitors just continued to walk past the closed gate.13/16
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An empty lifeguard tower at Ala Moana Regional Park on Thursday.14/16
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Visitors traversed Koko Head trail on Thursday despite the park’s closure. Mayor Kirk Caldwell had declared on the previous day that all city parks, park facilities, campgrounds and botanical gardens were closed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.15/16
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A sightseer took in the view at Lanai lookout at east Oahu on Thursday. The lookout had been closed and cordoned off with caution tape earlier in the day only to be ripped open as visitors drove into the parking lot.16/16
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Police barricaded the Halona Blowhole from visitors on Thursday.
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