Turns out the Big Island is really Big! We start out by driving to Pu uhonua O' Honaunau - the Place of Refuge. In Hawaii if you broke a law the penalty was death. Looking at the Chief, stepping on Royal Grounds or casting your shadow upon him were all punishable by death .
Your only option for survival is to elude your pursuers and reach the nearest pu uhonua, or place of refuge.
Walls mark the boundaries between the royal grounds and the sanctuary.
Many ki'i (carved wooden images) surround the reconstructed Hale o Keawe (Sacred Temple) The original temple, built around 1650 and long ago destroyed, housed the bones of at least 23 chiefs. believed to infuse the area with their power or mana. If you reached this sacred place, a priest would be obligated to offer you sanctuary and absolution, under pain of his own death should he refuse to do so.
There are replicas of old outrigger canoes.
This gentleman was making fish hooks out of shells using a hand drill made from a twig, string and stone with a volcano rock tip for the drill bit.
We even ran into a Sea Turtle
Till Later!
Meanwhile, we keep on Trek'n
Melissa & Gary
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