The roads in Hawai’i, and on the Big Island in particular, are lined with flowers, often wild, but these are planted along the road.
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Pu`uhonua O HÅnaunau National Historical Park!
“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. The Pu’uhonua protected the kapu breaker, civilians during the time of war and the defeated warriors. No harm could come to thosed who reached the boundaries the place of refuge.”
(From the National Park Service website above.)
THIS is what Hawai’i should look like!
Blue skies, palm trees waving in the breeze, grass huts! Â And of course, artsy wallpaper sized shadows!
And the non-wallpaper sized (or oriented, anyway!) artsy shadows!
Where was I? Â Oh yes, grass huts, palm trees, ocean breezes!
Royal houses (Hale O Keawe Heiau) with guardian figures guarding the bones of Hawaiian Chiefs!
Three more fierce figures!
Another!
Okay, I don’t know what this post means, but it made a nice photo.
Palm trees and lava fields.
A tropical lagoon. Â No sign of the SS Minnow.
Looking back we see the Hale O Keawe Heiau at the end of a 1000 foot long, ten foot high, 17 foot thick lava rock wall.
The Park Service has cut a path through the wall.
They don’t understand how the old Hawaiians built this rock wall without mortar and it stays together, but at their cut through the wall it keeps falling apart. Â Progress!
Artsy palm tree photos!
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Canoes in the restored village.
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Traditional crafts.
Breadfruit?
More breadfruit?
A map of the island on the wall.
Next: Â The Painted Church!
~Curtis in Kona! {!-{>
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