{"id":111,"date":"2007-05-30T20:52:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T08:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2014-10-23T00:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:18:52","slug":"kailua-kona","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/?page_id=111","title":{"rendered":"Kailua-Kona"},"content":{"rendered":"

18th May 2007 to 25th May 2007<\/h1>\n

Kona is tourist central and was a bit of a shock after Volcano and had us longing to head back to our “simple” life in our cottage in Volcano. Still it was an interesting location with plenty of activities to do and sights to see.<\/p>\n

\"20070518R
\n<\/a>Lauri points toward home, some 7000km away, from the most southern tip of Hawaii. South Point was the departure for voyaging canoes heading for New Zealand.<\/p>\n

\"20070518L
\nAncient canoe mooring point. Canoes were attached by\u00a0long ropes
\nto these holes so that they could fish off South Point\u00a0without being swept away by the strong currents found here.<\/p>\n

\"20070520L\u00a0\"20070520R\u00a0Stone wall and carvings at Pu’uhonua O Honaunau (Place of Refuge).<\/p>\n

\"20070520R
\nTraditional waka at Pu’uhonua O Honaunau (Place of Refuge).
\nPhoto by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070521L\u00a0\"20070521L\u00a0Snorkeling off Pu’uhonua O Honaunau (Place of Refuge), amazing amounts of tropical fish, sea turtles and even the very rare white whale (below).<\/p>\n

\"20070521L
\nPhoto by Lauri.<\/p>\n

\"20070521
\nPhoto taken outside Lu’au at the Sheraton Hotel.<\/p>\n

\"20070521L
\nLauri with “Maui” at Lu’au at the Sheraton Hotel.<\/p>\n

\"20070524L
\nRichard watches the carp here the Japanese Tea House at the Waihola Hilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18th May 2007 to 25th May 2007 Kona is tourist central and was a bit of a shock after Volcano and had us longing to head back to our “simple” life in our cottage in Volcano. Still it was an interesting location with plenty of activities to do and sights to see. Lauri points toward … Continue reading Kailua-Kona<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/139"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deltaprime.net.nz\/hawaii\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}