One of our proudest location finds was the site of the new beach camp where the survivors moved midway through Season 1 in Episode 12 - Whatever the Case May Be. As you may know beach scenes for the first half of Season 1 were filmed at Mokuleia Beach off of the Farrington Highway west of Haleiwa and Waialua.
Because of the combination of the show's popularity, fan interest and heavy winter waves, the production had to relocate to a less public location. The production chose Papailoa Beach northeast of Haleiwa. The beach is better known as Police Beach because the Honolulu Police Department has a lease on the beach for recreational activities.
Police Beach can be accessed from the end of Haleiwa Beach Park, but our crack photographer and Lost expert Ryan Ozawa found that it is easier to drive past Haleiwa on the Kamehameha Highway (Hwy 83) and take the first left on Papailoa Rd. Drive until you see a public beach access on the right and a dirt parking area on the left. Take the access and go left on the beach.
When I suggested to Ryan that he check out this location in May 2006, neither of us expected that he'd find anything but an abandoned beach since filming had pretty well completed for the season. We were both shocked when Ryan found the entire "tent city" or campsite of the Lost suvivors including Sawyer's tent, Eko's church, the grave area where Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia and Libby are buried and even some DHARMA canned goods!
We're including quite a few photos of Ryan's great find at Police Beach.
View a Google map of this Lost location.
View a screenshot of this location from ABC's Lost.