Hawaii Bed and Breakfast Inns
Hawaii, South Point
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eaving Captain Cook & Honaunau area and traveling south on
Highway #11 you will shortly find the Hookena Beach Park turn off just past Kealia. In
it's day Hookena was an important interisland steamer landing. in 1889, Robert Louis
Stevenson mentioned his experience at the landing as followes, "The boat was run in
upon a breaker and the passengers ejected on a flat rock, where the next wave submerged us
to our hoses. There we continued to stand, the rain drenching us from above, the sea from
below, like people mesmerized: and as we were all (being travelers) decked out with the
green garlands of departure, we must have offered somewhat the same appearance as a
shipwrecked picnic." Hookena offers a nice pocket beach with very vine black sand
with a touch of coral sand. Look for the sandy entry/exit point. Most of the time there
will be a local entrepreneur hawking local lauhala or a cold coconut.About an hour drive
down and back up to Hwy #11.
A little further south on Hwy.#11 you will see the Milolii Beach County Park. Nice area for diving. Big coconuts and a past favoret spot for opelu fishing. Small local community. About an hour down and back up to Hwy#11.
Just past Hawaii Ocean View Estates you will find the cut off
to South Point. South Point is the southerly most tip of the United States of America.
About a 60 minute hike south and you will find a very unique Green Sand Beach. (volcanic
sand crystels of olivine). Sometimes a beachcomber is rewarded with a gem quality stone.
South Point has a park area but Ka Lae, "the point" has very turbulent
converging winds & currents offshore. Great for fishing, some of the worlds best, but
don't expect to let the kids play in the ocean. Well worth the time just to be able to
say, "I have been as far south, in the good-ol-US, as you can go and still be
dry".
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