Pu'uhonua o Honaunau (Place of Refuge) was a place of asylum. If a lawbreaker were able to make it here, he could be forgiven for whatever crimes he had performed and escape punishment, which usually was death. Here Kelli gets friendly with a couple of wood carvings of Hawaiian gods.
Sometimes called "Kailua" and sometimes called "Kona", this is the main city on the Kona coast of the Big Island. This is the view from King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, where we spent our last night on the Big Island. This was kind of a downer way of ending our trip, since it's starting to get a little run down. In the foreground, you can see King Kamehameha the Greats's 'Ahu'ena Heiau where he spent his final years. Note the "vog" in the distance. In big cities, you have smog from industrial smoke. On the Big Island, you have "vog" from the volcano.
Here's a sight that we will treasure forever. A beautiful Kona sunset, taken along Alii Drive just outside the Hard Rock Cafe in Kona:
