Am trying to imagine - that green sand on black rock, stunning and surreal!
And the first photo... looks like a chunk of rock jutting out to sea, when you suddenly realise there are actually ant-size people all around the curve of beach... then the dimension hits you!
Yeah, the dimension hits you indeed! You can also see some trucks and a white jeep parked at the rim. Its a 4WD trail, but poor/non-existing management is destroying that landscape. So I prefer no to drive there. Its not people's fault per say... poverty level with local Hawaiian is high, and this gives them easy money. But I still wish they manage the trail system though. Have one trail, rather than many random ones.
The walk is spectacular, and there are other patches of green sands before the beach proper. The second picture is one such patch. Smaller patches are better preserved naturally, as there are no people.