Big Island · Kailua-Kona
Keauhou
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This place asks to be respected from a distance. Please do not enter.
Keauhou (Hawaiian: "the new era") is a resort and cultural area south of Kahaluʻu on the Kona coast, comprising Keauhou Bay (a small protected bay), the…
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The Kauikeaouli birthplace monument at Keauhou Bay marks an active site of cultural significance — Native Hawaiians visit, and ceremony happens here on royal anniversaries. If you encounter cultural practice in progress, give it space. The hōlua slide remnants and other archaeological features in the area are kapu — do not climb on the stones, do not move material, do not enter posted areas. The royal fishponds along the shore are also pre-contact features deserving the same care.