We took a tender to Kona. From the moment I stepped off the ship, I loved it: we were in "old Hawaii" Pu'uhonua o Honannau National Historical Park. I enjoyed watching the surf hit the rocks. It is a place of refuge with Hawaiian huts and sea turtles. But, this is a historical place too---where King Kamahameha died and where Captain Cook was killed. His monument is on a strip of land owned by Great Britain.
First, we went to Norm's Cloud Forest---a friend of Art's who started his own re-forestation project. Every day around noon, the clouds roll in and water the plants. We hiked a bit and then went back to Kona were we visited a coffee roasting place, had coffee and saw the coffee plants growing.
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That night we had dinner at Liberty where we had Prime Rib or Lobster from Kona.
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