The walk to Kaena Point is 2.3 miles: the drive to its parking area is 36 miles. A New Zealand company has constructed a fence from one side of the point to the other to protect coastal plants, the nesting Albatross and the endangered Monk Seal. Off shore we spotted the exhausting breathe of humpback whales
You can walk to the point from either side of the island.
The South side trail follows part of the Oahu railroad built in the 1890's to carry sugar came. This was replaced by trucks in 1950's. There is a outcrop of rock called Leina ka uhane. It is a spot the Hawaiians believe the soul departs from earth for the next world
On our way home we stopped at an organic farm to buy vegetables and to look at the old Japanese cemetery where some of the interned Japanese from the camps were buried.
The rocks are to prevent 4 wheelers from driving any further. 
The New Zealand fence to protect the nesting birds
Look carefully and you can see the Monk Seal
Looking back along the Southern approach.
For a visual tour of the observation emplacements built just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, click on this link.
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ReplyDeleteCheers,
John