Puuhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park, Hawaii’s Big IslandLocated on Honaunau Bay in south Kona, Puuhonua o Honaunau immerses you in Hawaiian culture. This 180-acre national historic park was once a place of refuge for ancient Hawaiian lawbreakers.
The above site is one of the places we went yesterday. It is an amazing place where the lava meets the ocean in a very special way. So, when the breakers (waves) come in they create rivers the move into pools or slowly make their way back to the ocean. So, they would catch fish and put them in these pools and eat them later and leave them alive until then which if you don't have a refrigerator in a tropical climate is a really great idea.
Watching the waves break onto a natural lava wall instead of a beach is a pretty amazing experience in itself. But, if you get a chance to come here this place is pretty special.
Also, within 10 miles of here is where Captain Cook died in a skirmish with the Hawaiian King's men. It appears there was some kind of trade dispute and so the Hawaiians took something Captain Cook didn't want them to have. So, He kidnapped the King of Hawaii then and for this they killed him. When you are approaching a culture where even looking at the King is punishable by death like Hawaii then this sort of makes sense.
Originally, they thought Captain Cook and his men were Ghosts coming across the ocean. They didn't consider them to be human and the common people were not allowed to "See them or talk about them" (Sort of like the way people on earth were in the U.S. regarding UFOS in the 1940s and 1950s (if they didn't want to just disappear suddenly and never be heard from again.)
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