This digital camera (beachcam_004) operated for over 4.5 years between February 5, 2009 and October 14, 2013. It was located inside the bell tower of the Mission of Sts. Peter and Paul church to photograph Waimea Bay on the North Shore of the island of Oʻahu in the State of Hawaiʻi. The oblique camera view presented here captures the entire breadth of the bay at a distance offshore of the beach park (not visible) looking outwards over Kamehameha Highway towards Kaʻena Point in the southwest. Capturing hourly snapshots at a set vantage point during the local daytime hours of 6:00 AM or 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, these images are useful for tracking ocean wave and water dynamics over time. The camera was mounted in the bell tower windows for a total height of 20 meters above ground level or 31 meters above mean sea level.
This camera was owned and maintained by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR) under the supervision of Dr. Mark Merrifield and lab.
See also beachcam_003 for an alternate camera view from the same location pointing further inshore of Waimea Bay along the shoreline of the beach park.
