Fish Hoppers, Kona
Fish HoppersKona, Big Island * http://www.fishhopper.com/kona/ * 75-5683 Alii Dr, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii 96740 * 808.326.2002 *A great little seafood / steak restaurant and bar as you enter into the active strip of downtown Kona. They have good service and some pretty decent dishes. Cocktails are tasty too. Great views of the ocean and [...]
Kealakekua Bay Historical Park across from Captain Cook, Kona
Kealakekua Bay Historical Park and Beach
Kona, Big Island, HawaiiA great little cove across from the ever-so-famous Captain Cook Cove and diving hotspot on the Kona coast, Big Island, Hawaii. It is located roughly 12 miles south of Kailua-Kona. The area was settled over a thousand years [...]
Kona
Kailua KonaBig Island, HawaiiAn interesting little resort town on one of the coasts of Big Island, Hawaii. While it doesn’t seem very populated, it is one of the Big Island’s most popular cities as well as one of its largest (census 2000: population 9,870). Its one of the main spots where tourists go for rest, [...]
Roadside marker and grave between Punalu’u and Kona
Roadside Markers and Graves in Hawaii
All along Route 11 on the Big Island of Hawaii are memorial markers, monuments, and graves for those who have lost their lives. In addition to the monuments are quite a few roadside cemeteries. Above is one of the most interesting ones I [...]
Punalu’u Bake Shop
Punalu’u Bake Shop
http://www.bakeshophawaii.com/ * Route 11 * Na`alehu (Big Island), Hawai`i 96772 * 1-866-366-3501 *The most notorious “Southern-most Bakery in the United States” at Latitude 19º North of the Equator, is the Punalu’u Bake Shop off Route 11. An excellent stop off after seeing the sea turtles and black sand beaches [...]
Punalu’u Beach
Punalu’u Black Sand Beach
Punalu’u, Big Island, HawaiiOne of the most famous beaches on Big Island is the Punalu’u Black Sand Beach. It is the most expansive and accessible stretch of black sand beach on the island. Tourists from all over come here to see the sand, the sea turtles, and to snorkel/dive. Located right [...]
Ka’u Desert
Ka’u Desert
Big Island, Hawaii
The Kaʻū Desert is an amazing desert of lava rock and sand in the southwest rift zone of the Kilauea volcano. It is not a true desert because it does get rainfall, albeit it acid rain, and it exceeds 1,000 mm per year. (39 inches) The desert consists primarily of decaying [...]
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Volcano National Park
Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
One of Hawaii’s most notorious and famous National Parks, “Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park” was established in 1916 as a National Park, a International Biosphere Reserve in 1980, and a World Heritage Site in 1987 to demonstrate the history and living geological experiene of volcanism, geology, and techtonics. It covers [...]
Kilauea Caldera
Kilauea
Volcano, Big Island, Hawaii
Kīlauea is one of the most spectacular volcanoes existing on Big Island in Hawaii. Rising 4,091 feet above sea level, the summit caldera is a broad shelf of uplands well beneath the long profile of Mauna Loa. It is a very low flat shield volcano lying against the southeast flank of [...]
Kilauea Lava Flow
Kilauea Lava Flow* End of Highway 130 on the east side not far from Kalapana, Big Island, Hawaii *Flowing out of the active volcano Kīlauea on the Big Island, comes one of the world’s most frequent outpouring of lava. Lava has been issuing continuously at Puʻu ʻŌʻō since January 1983. In 1998 Kīlauea [...]