Kohala exploration

Great tour round the NW and N coasts (Kohala district, named after the oldest volcano on the island) as far as Popolū Valley. On the the spur of the moment I stopped at another historic site, Pu'ukohala Heiau, built by King Kamehameha from stones transported hand to hand from Popolū. He had asked how he could conquer Hawai'i and the answer (via a kahuna (priest ) was to build a heiau and dedicate it to the war god. There's much more to the story, but essentially it worked and he unified the Hawaiian islands.Read more