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The Original King Kamehameha Statue
The Original Statue of King Kamehameha The story of the statue is interesting. There are four copies of the statue: one in downtown Honolulu; another in Washington, D.C.; a 14-foot, five-ton statue in Hilo and the original statue in front of the old court house in Kapa’au in north Kohala. The sculptor Thomas Ridgeway Gould had…
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Kapakai Kokoiki – Birthplace of King Kamehameha
When we visited the Big Island a couple of years ago, I wanted to visit the birthplace of King Kamehameha. Using Google Maps searching for the correct road, we drove to the south side on Coast Guard Road. Respecting closed gates, this was a dead end. Then on to the north side via Upolo Airport…
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Kohala, Hawaii to See the Sun
Quite a contrast, the first three days in Kailua-Kona were very gray and overcast with volcanic smog. The ocean was gray with no obvious horizon, the water just blurred into the sky. It was much worse than the haze of L.A. We’d read about vog but really were not prepared for it. We didn’t know how much we’d miss…