June 14, 2019

~ islanddave
Breakfast – coffee, yogurt and fresh fruit: mountain apple, watermelon, papaya, mango, banana and pineapple.
Honaunau Bay in South Kona –
Imagine you had just broken the sacred laws, the kapu, and the only punishment was death. Your only chance of survival is to elude your pursuers and reach the Pu’uhonua, a place of refuge . https://www.nps.gov/puho/index.htm
  • Sharon – in the Place of Refuge
  • ‘Āle’ale’a Heiau
  • The Great Wall – L shaped, 12′ high, 18′ wide, 965′ long
    (photo doesn’t represent it’s size!)
Yellow tang – Keone’ele Cove, Honaunau Bay (only ali’i, hereditary nobles, could land their canoes here).
Noni is sometimes called a “starvation fruit” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morinda_citrifolia

Hikiau Heiau, located on Kealakekua Bay, in South Kona, was a luakini temple where human and animal blood was used as sacrifice by the Ancient Hawaiians.

Sitting on the south end of the bay it is associated with funeral rites. The large platform made of volcanic rock was said to be over 16 feet high, 250 feet long, and 100 feet wide. It has been established to be the first place that Hawaiians have sustained contact with Western outsiders. Cook’s journals claimed when he landed there were four villages with eighty houses each with several thousand native Hawaiian villagers living along the three miles of shoreline.

A monument to Captain Cook lies across the bay from the heiau.

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