First stop on this tour is Kealakekua Bay, where Captain Cook arrived on the islands for the first time. Unfortunately, this is the same bay where, when he returned a month later, an incident where the natives stole a boat and Cook's crew tried to kidnap a chief, led to him being killed. In any case, it’s pretty little bay.
We then continued down the coast, mostly through a lava field, to the Place of Refuge. Place of Refuge is a spot where people could go to avoid being persecuted either for a crime or if they were fighting against the local natives in a war. The way it worked is they could stay there and not have to worry about being hurt until a certain amount of time after which the local Kahuna would set them free. This area was pretty interesting, and they had some really cool old tiki statues facing the sea. We also enjoyed watching the fish that were in the tidal pools and all teh goats that were wandering around the area. After that, we had some time so we decided to do be free coffee plantation tour. We found the Greenwell tour and we are really glad we did. We got there at 1:53 and there was a tour leaving at 2:00. Our guide, Nate, was really cool and really informative. He did a great job of showing us all kinds of different plants that were growing on the plantation and also explaining the whole process of turning coffee beans into coffee-from picking them from the trees to roasting the beans and packaging them. This was a great tour.
After that we had some time to kill before we had a luau on the resort property, so we laid around the pool for a little bit. The luau was OK; it was kind of cool to watch the dancing, especially the fire dancing, but it's the kind of thing that now that I've done it once in my life, I don't think I have to do it again. After the luau we were pretty stuffed and just went back to the room and relaxed.
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