Visited: Tuesday, October 17, 2017
It's amazing what a difference a great ranger talk makes. We arrived just after one had started, and joined - and it tied Pu`ukoholā Heiau, built by King Kamehameha I as one step in unifying Hawaii, in to the history we read about in Iolani Palace and the Bishop Museum. The Heiau itself is impressive - or, really, the two that you can see are impressive, each in its own way, and the submerged one is impressive for the difficulty in underwater archaeology with sharks. Beyond the temples, there's not much there, but it's more than enough - they are great at telling the story.
At this point, we have exactly 300 NPS units to go; as best I can tell, when we started we had 391 to visit.
It's amazing what a difference a great ranger talk makes. We arrived just after one had started, and joined - and it tied Pu`ukoholā Heiau, built by King Kamehameha I as one step in unifying Hawaii, in to the history we read about in Iolani Palace and the Bishop Museum. The Heiau itself is impressive - or, really, the two that you can see are impressive, each in its own way, and the submerged one is impressive for the difficulty in underwater archaeology with sharks. Beyond the temples, there's not much there, but it's more than enough - they are great at telling the story.
At this point, we have exactly 300 NPS units to go; as best I can tell, when we started we had 391 to visit.
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