Ka Lae (South Point)

The cliff edge at Ka Lae is unfenced and the basalt drops fifty feet straight to the ocean. Stay back from the edge; the wind shifts unpredictably. Do not jump from the cliffs — people have died doing it; the Halaea Current does not care that you came this far. The canoe-mooring holes drilled in the basalt are pre-contact archaeology; do not stand on them, do not run rope through them, do not collect anything from the area. The whole site is sacred ground — both as one of the earliest Polynesian landing places in Hawaiʻi and as a place of continuous fishing-related religious practice for over a thousand years.