Kailua-Kona, Hawaii - Kahalu’u Beach Park (2018)
Kona is a moku or district on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi in the State of Hawaii. In the current system of administration of Hawaiʻi County, the moku of Kona is divided into North Kona District (Kona ‘Akau) and South Kona District (Kona Hema). The term Kona is sometimes used inaccurately to refer to its largest town, Kailua-Kona. Other towns in Kona include Kealakekua, Keauhou, Holualoa, Hōnaunau and Honalo.
In the Hawaiian language, kona means leeward or dry side of the island, as opposed to ko‘olau which means windward or the wet side of the island. In the times of Ancient Hawaiʻi, Kona was the name of the leeward district on each major island. In Hawai‘i, the Pacific anticyclone provides moist prevailing northeasterly winds to the Hawaiian islands, resulting in rain when the winds contact the windward landmass of the islands – the winds subsequently lose their moisture and travel on to the leeward (or kona) side of the island. When this pattern reverses, it can produce a Kona storm from the west. Kona has cognates with the same meaning in other Polynesian languages. In Tongan, the equivalent cognate would be tonga; for windward, the associated cognate would be tokelau.
Kona is the home of the world-famous Ironman World Championship Triathlon which is held each year in October in Kailua-Kona. The Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park marks the place where Captain James Cook was killed in 1779. Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park and Honokohau Settlement and Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park are in Kona.
The volcanic slopes of Hualālai and Mauna Loa in the Kona district provide an ideal microclimate for growing coffee. Kona coffee is considered one of the premium specialty coffees of the world.
In pop culture, the region served as the basis of the Beach Boys' song Kona Coast from their 1978 album M.I.U. Album.
Kona is the home of one of the main bases of the international Christian mission organization YWAM, and the University of the Nations, first founded here.
Kahalu'u Beach Park (Kona, Big Island, HI)
We visited one of our favorite ice cream spots in San Francisco. Lots of good things for kids and adults alike. Hip, urban setting in the Mission District. 24th and York Mini Park is a great place to play just a few blocks away. Lots of other food and snack options in the neighborhood, as well as produce shops and Latin bakeries. Check it out!!
Kahalu'u Beach Park, Kona, Hawaii, September, 2014
Snorkelling with green sea turtle and marine life at Kona's Kahalu'u Beach Park, Hawaii
Kahaluu Beach Park, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
What a wonderful spot for snorkeling, swimming or surfing. A reef protects part of the shoreline from large waves so beginners can easily enter the water. With two sets of bathrooms, lifeguards, a covered area with picnic tables, and an area for grilling, it is a great spot for a BBQ at the beach as well as all of the other fun activities. Located very near Keauhou shopping center if you need to run get any supplies you forgot. Video courtesy Action Team Realty, Inc.
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Hawaii - Triggerfish at Kahalu'u Beach Park - July 2008
Black and Picasso Triggerfish at Kahalu'u Beach Park.
Keauhou Beach Resort - Kona, Hawaii
Keauhou Beach Resort invites you to a special place where nature and history reside in harmony. Sacred sites speak of their ancestral memories. Walking paths are shaded by kukui (candlenut tree), hala (pandanus) and `ulu (breadfruit). Fragrant plumeria and colorful heleconia enliven lush gardens. Ocean tide pools invite you to explore with gentle sea turtles and the surf at Kahalu`u Bay beckons you to swim and snorkel. Here, sunsets paint the sky with passion and stars light the heavens like brilliant jewels.
Discover tales of antiquity at the sites of three heiau (stone temples); at King David Kalakaua's beach cottage; and at the royal bathing pool. Throughout the resort are murals by renowned artist Herb Kane, outrigger canoes carved from koa wood, and displays of delicate feather lei.
Travel to a state of mind where simple pleasures reawaken your senses. Hele mai, come, be our guest at Keauhou Beach Resort where ancient ways inspire new discoveries.
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Or call: 1-866-326-6803 or 808-322-3441
ThruJimsEyes - Hawaii: Snorkeling at Kahalu'u Beach Park
Kahalu'u Beach is one of the best snorkel experiences on the big island of Hawaii. It is like swimming in the middle of a giant fish aquarium... Just hundreds of fish everywhere.
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Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona - Kailua-Kona (Big Island, Hawaii) - United States
Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona hotel city: Kailua-Kona (Big Island, Hawaii) - Country: United States
Address: 78-6821 Alii Drive Unit 2-201; zip code: HI 96740
Located 7 km from Mauna Kea Summit in Kailua-Kona, this apartment features an outdoor pool. Guests benefit from balcony. Free WiFi is provided and free private parking is available on site.
-- Le Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona vous accueille à Kailua-Kona, à 7 km du volcan bouclier Mauna Kea. Il possède une piscine privée et un bain à remous. Le parc historique national de Kaloko-Honokohau vous attend à 12 km.
-- El Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona ofrece una piscina al aire libre y se encuentra en Kailua-Kona, a 7 km del volcán Mauna Kea. Tiene bañera de hidromasaje. El parque histórico nacional de Kaloko-Honokohau está a 12 km de distancia.
-- Das Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona in Kailua-Kona erwartet Sie mit einem Außenpool, 7 km vom Gipfel des Mauna Kea entfernt. Zur Ausstattung dieser Unterkunft gehört auch ein Whirlpool.
-- Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona is gelegen in Kailua-Kona, op 7 km van Mauna Kea Summit, en beschikt over een buitenzwembad. De accommodatie heeft tevens een hot tub. Het nationaal-historische park Kaloko-Honokohau ligt op 12 km van de accommodatie.
-- カイルア・コナのマウナケア山頂から7kmの場所に位置するアパートメントです。屋外プール、バルコニー、無料Wi-Fiを提供しています。敷地内の専用駐車場を無料で利用できます。 キッチン（食器洗い機、オーブン、電子レンジ、コーヒーメーカー、ポット付）、薄型テレビが備わります。Beach Villas Kahaluu at Konaでは、ホットタブやバーベキュー施設なども利用できます。 ...
-- Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona公寓式酒店位于凯卢阿（Kailua-Kona），设有室外游泳池，距离莫纳克亚峰（Mauna Kea Summit）7公里。公寓设有热水浴池。公寓式酒店距离Kaloko-Honokohau国家历史公园12公里，内设免费的私人停车场。 公寓设有休息区以及带洗碗机和烤箱的厨房，配有微波炉、咖啡机和水壶。每间公寓均设有带浴缸或淋浴的私人浴室，提供床单。 Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona公寓式酒店设有热水浴池和烧烤设施。 ...
-- Апартаменты Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona с открытым бассейном расположены в городе Каилуа-Кона, в 7 км от обсерватории Мауна Кеа Саммит. К услугам гостей гидромассажная ванна. В 12 км находится национальный исторический парк Калоко-Хонокохау.
-- Beach Villas Kahaluu at Kona ligger i Kailua-Kona, 7 km från Mauna Kea Summit. Här finns en utomhuspool. Kaloko-Honokohau National Historic Park ligger 12 km bort. WiFi är gratis. I köket finns diskmaskin och ugn.
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The end of the World . Keauhou Kona, Hawaii
Watching the high surf pounding on the Lava rocks at the, End of the World.
Kahalu'u Beach Park, Hawaii: 9:00AM Snorkel Light
SBHawaii.com (Super Beaches Hawaii) explores Kahalu'u Beach Park on Ali'i Drive in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. With easy acess, spectacular views and amazingly stunning tropical schooling fish and turtles. Kahalu'u Beach Park remains a local and tourist favorite, and a Big Island treasure. Filmed by Richard Hart, Donna Hart, Tyler Hart and the SBHawaii Video Unit. Filmed in 1920x1080 HD Video EXCAM on location in Hawaii.
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Keauhou Bay Sunset Along Kona Coast Hawaii
This is a sunset over the community between Kahalu'u and Keauhou Bay in Kona Town Hawaii.
Austin's Hawaii - Video Tours - Big Island - Kekaha Kai State Park
360 in 60* of Kekaha Kai State Park north of the Kona airport on the Big Island of Hawaii. This beach is accessible by 2wd vehicles and is one of the best beaches on the Big Island. I always see sea turtles when I snorkel here, and there are even better bays easily walkable from this point. More vids of those bays soon.
These videos aim to provide you with a basic glimpse of areas that may be of interest in your travel planning. Nothing fancy, but I hope you find it useful for what it's worth. Please visit other Austin's Hawaii Video Tours to help you plan your next visit to Hawaii!
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Kahalu'u Bay, Surfing, Snorkling, Foilboard, Kona Hawaii, Coastline, 4K Drone Footage
Kahaluʻu Bay (/ˌkɑːhəˈluːʔuː/; Hawaiian pronunciation: [ˈkɐhɐˈluʔu]) is a historic district and popular recreation area on the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
Early history
This area has been populated for about 500 years, and in the 18th and 19th centuries was an important royal residence.[2] One major feature is Pa o ka menehune (which means literally wall of the ancients[3]), a breakwater constructed in Ancient Hawaii that might have once enclosed the entire bay. Since construction of a heiau using the dry-stack masonry technique (uhau humu pohaku) was a major undertaking, it is unusual to find the concentration of about ten that were built on this bay.[citation needed]
The Kuʻemanu Heiau is on the north end of the bay. This was used by royalty to view surfing and as a residence.[4] Nearby the Keawaiki canoe landing site is popular today with local surfers.
Two ancient fishponds called Waikuaʻala and Poʻo Hawaiʻi are still visible. Royal Governor John Adams Kuakini had a thatched roof house, and King David Kalākaua built a beach house in this area which has been reconstructed. South of the bay is Hāpaialiʻi Heiau, associated with astrological observation, built between 1411 and 1465 and restored in 2007.[5] The Keʻeku Heiau was used for human sacrifice (luakini) and Kapuanoni Heiau were also built just south of the bay. Petroglyphs thought to depict the defeat of Kamalalawalu of Maui by Lonoikamakahiki can be viewed at low tide near the temples. Several kuʻula (sacred stones, said to have been brought from Maui) were monuments to the plentiful fish and Green turtles that are still found in the bay.
More recent history
Across Aliʻi Drive from the bay are the stone ruins of the original Helani Church built in 1861 by Rev. John D. Paris. It was built on the ruins of the ʻOhiʻamukumuku Heiau. As the population moved inland, a new Helani Church was constructed at a higher elevation still used by the congregation today.[6]
On the grounds of a former Kahuna's house, a Catholic church officially called Saint Peter's by the Sea was built in 1880 on Laʻaloa bay, and then moved to its present location in 1912, run by the Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church Parish. It is commonly known as the little blue church, and is used as a landmark for canoe races.[7]
In 1970, the Keauhou Beach Hotel was built on the point South of the bay. The hotel was bought in 1987 for $13M by the Azabu Building Company, headed by Japanese businessman Kitaro Watanabe. Plans were to enlarge it and build a larger resort combined with the Kona Lagoon Hotel (built in 1975), and more facilities across the street, to be called the Azabu Kona Beach Resort.[8] There was also a botanical park called Kona Gardens on the uphill (mauka) side of the street. However, the investors suffered financial problems in the 1990s. The other properties were abandoned, reverting to the holder of the lease in 1995, the investment arm of Kamehameha Schools, which eventually also bought the remaining hotel. In June 1996, three of the executives were arrested in Tokyo, suspected of concealing assets from creditors.[9] In 1997, the hotel was sold again to Trinity Investments from Chicago. [10] The 462-room Kona Lagoon Hotel, closed since 1988, had fallen into disrepair.[11] Local people said the project was cursed because of all the sacred sites in the area, and it was torn down in 2004, with long-term plans to restore the historic sites.[12] In 2012, Kamehameha Schools announced plans to close and eventually demolish the Keauhou Beach Hotel, and to build a cultural and educational complex on the site. The hotel closed in October 2012. As of August 2014, demolition is planned for fall 2015.[13]
The Kalahuu Bay District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1974.[1]Island by extenz |
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A Royal Battle, A King Sacrificed: Ke'eku, Big Island Hawaii
On the grounds of the Keauhou Beach Hotel are the remains of a heiau that served as both a luakini heiau (place of human sacrifice) and pu'uhonua (place of refuge). Built by the Hawai'ian Ali'i Lonoikamakakahiki in the 16th century, Ke'eku Heiau is one of the most famous religious sites in the State of Hawai'i because of its veneration in folk tales involving the 16th century wars between the Hawai'i and the Maui. The Heiau has walls an impressive 6 to 11 feet thick, and measures 150 by 100 feet in area. There are two stone features on the heiau's raised stone platform said to represent the defeated Maui Ali'i' Kamalalawalu's black and white war dogs, Kapapako and Kauakahiok'oka.
Carved into the rock in the inter-tidal region in front of this heiau is an impressive set of ki'i pohaku (petroglyphs). Due to geological subsidence of the island over the past several hundred years, these petroglyphs are visible only at low tide, or by mask and snorkel. There is one large anthropomorphic petroglyph in particular that is said to represent the sacrificed Maui Ali'i, Kamalalawalu.
To reach Ke'eku Heiau, park either in the Kahalu'u Beach Park or at Keauhou Ohana Beach Resort. From Kahalu'u, walk onto the Keauhou Ohana Beach Resort property through the gateway in the fence between them and follow the asphalt path to the pool deck, through the lobby of the resort and join the paved path that runs along the end of the Resort driveway. From the Resort parking lot, walk up the drive to the paved path that runs along the end of the driveway. Following along this path, one passes Punawai Spring first, then, where the path runs around the end of the tennis courts the Mo'o Twins homesite. Continuing on the path until it ends at a broken concrete bridge among No Trespassing signs is Hapaial'i Heiau. To get to Ke'eku Heiau, one may take one's chances crossing the old concrete bridge, or one can walk on stones and wade across the tidepool at low tide (be very careful, the rocks are extremely slippery). Immediately at the south end of the bridge begin the walls and platforms of Ke'eku Heiau. Although in ruin and disarray, this Heiau is one of the most accessible and impressive temple sites in the immediate area. Remember that these are holy religious sites to modern native Hawai'ians; to not trespass, walk or climb on the temple proper; take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.
Further Information: During 16th century, Lonoikamakakahiki, a Hawai'ian Ali'i, and Kamalalawalu, an Ali'i of the Maui, had numerous battles for possession of each other's island. It is said of the penultimate of these battles, when the Maui attacked the Hawai'i, the numbers of warriors was so vast that as the first of the Maui war canoes were landing on Hawai'i, the last of their canoes were just leaving Maui.
Lonoikamakakahiki had become enraged with Kamalalawalu during the course of this battle. The invading Maui had captured his leading general, gouged his eyes out and then had spears run through his eye sockets. Lonoikamakakahiki vowed a bloody revenge.
When Lonoikamakakahiki's army vanquished the Maui, he took Kamalalawalu over to the Ke'eku Heiau and sacrificed him alive to celebrate the great victory. The method of sacrifice was slow and graphic. Kamalalawalu was staked to the ground for several days, then taken to a nearby flat rock and butchered. The body was then towed to sea and fed to the sharks (some versions of the folktale have Kamalalawalu impaled on a pole for several days, before being butchered on the flat rock).
Hawai'ian folktales hold that Kamalalawalu brought with him into battle two large, fierce war dogs, a white one (Kapapako) and a black one (Kauakahiok'oka). The dogs are said to have lain down and died on the spot of Kamalalawalu's execution. Although buried beneath the heiau luakini platform, it is said that these dogs can still be seen roaming, and heard howling, in the night searching for their fallen master. Two stone features found on the makai side of the Ke'eku Heiau stone platform represent Kamalalawalu's two dogs.
Petroglyphs along the rocks, visible at low tide between Kahalu'u Beach Park and Keauhou O'hana Beach Resort, commemorate the sacrifice of Kamalalawalu by Lonoikamakakahiki. No Services.
For more information on visiting Hawaii in general and touring ancient temples on the Big Island in particular, visit tourguidehawii.com and lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com.
Filmed and Produced by Donald B. MacGowan.
Snorkeling at Kahaluu Beach Park, Kailua - Kona, HAWAII
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Surfing at Pine Trees (Big Island) Kona Hawaii
Caught a wave in and launched off the rocks near the shore. Got a big bruise and scrape, but it was worth it
Hawaii trip - big island - Makalawena Beach - pt 1 - day 6
Hawaii trip - big island - Makalawena Beach - day 6 on the Kona side
Green Sea Turtles at Kekaha Kai State Park, Hawai'i
We were looking for a spot to hang out on the beach, and we ran into three sea turtles having a snack! Paul jumped in and got a few clips of them doing their thing.
Beach Watch on Big Island Television
BITV spotlights Kahalu'u (Turtle Beach) and Magic Sands. Located in the Kona to Keauhou districts these beaches offer great snorkeling and surfing. For more videos about Hawaii's Big Island go to