Makai Research Pier
From outsideEast side
A research pier across the road from Sea Life Park. In the 1980s it was T.C.’s helicopter charter base.
- Time there
- 10 minutes
- Best time
- Morning light from the Makapuʻu side
- Cost
- Free
- Good to know
- The pier is a working facility and closed to the public; see it from the highway pull-offs.
Filmed here
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Island Hoppers, T.C.’s charter business, from season 2 onward.
Hawaii Five-O (1968) · Season 3, “F.O.B. Honolulu”
Used for the second part of the episode.
Private land or a working building. Look from a public spot; please don’t go in.
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