Friday, March 23, 2012

Free Things Big Island

From Honolulu Advertiser 4/27/09:





FREE ATTRACTIONS ON THE BIG ISLAND





The Big Island Visitors Bureau recently put together a list of free attractions for Hawai%26#39;i Island, including:





• Pana%26#39;ewa Rainforest Zoo %26amp; Gardens, a 12-acre rainforest zoo south of Hilo on Mamaki Street. Namasté, its white Bengal tiger, gets fed daily at 3:30. Open 9-4 daily. 808-959-7224.





• %26#39;Akaka Falls State Park, 13 miles north of Hilo above Honomu. It has an easy footpath loop that provides views of two beautiful waterfalls.





• Mokupapapa Discovery Center. It showcases the marine life of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands with scientific interpretation, a 2,500-gallon saltwater aquarium, and more, at 308 Kamehameha Ave. in Hilo, near the Hilo Farmers Market.





• Kohala Historical Sites State Monument, off Highway 270 near %26#39;Upolu Airport in North Kohala. It consists of two historic sites: Mo%26#39;okini Heiau, a National Historic Monument, the most famous ancient sacrificial heiau (temple) in the state; and Kamehameha%26#39;s Birth Place, a memorial to the 18th-century chief who united the islands under one rule.





• Hamakua Macadamia Nut Co. in Kawaihae. It offers free tours and samples at its new factory store. The company grows, markets and processes 100-percent Big Island macadamia nuts.





• Puako Petroglyph Preserve, off Highway 19 and just north of the entrance to the Fairmont Orchid on the Kohala Coast. It offers a short hike that leads to more than 3,000 petroglyphs; the hotel provides a free map and brochure.





• Kona Historical Society%26#39;s traditional Portuguese bread-baking, every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. See how Portuguese families in Hawai%26#39;i traditionally baked their weekly supply of bread in large, wood-fired ';fornos'; (stone ovens) — and sample some.





• Lava Tree State Monument, off Pahoa-Pohoiki Road, 2.7 miles southeast of Pahoa. The site is a forest of ';lava trees,'; formed by a lava flow that swept through the area and left behind lava molds of tree trunks.





Source: Big Island Visitors Bureau



Free Things Big Island


Correction....Akaka Falls is scheduled very soon to begin charging an entrance fee of $5.00





Same with Place of refuge and Capt Cook as well as several beaches......$5.pp/ per day





THe Hamakua Mac Nut place is a great alternative to driving the the Hershey place in Hilo...... if you are staying in Kona its a 1 hour drive not a 3 hour



Free Things Big Island


You should have seen the booth of the Hawaii Visitors Authority at the Seoul Expo in Korea two weeks ago. It was downright pathetic! They should stop paying those executives hundreds of thousands of dollars.




We would have been happy to put that list together with additional info for free..




Dusty, thanks for posting a list for the Big Island!!! This will be useful to bookmark or make an inside page from.




thanks Dusty this is great I will use it often.




';We would have been happy to put that list together with additional info for free..';





Add to this one.




Even better, Adeline, make one and insert it regularly into threads. Or make an Inside Page (they are wiki-like so many can contribute) and then insert the link to that. Mahalo in advance! (I was thinking of asking Dusty if I could get it started, but far better that island residents and semi-residents do it because naturally you are more on top of developments.)




Good thoughts keep it going




Honu, we already have an insider page, we spent hours putting it together last year. Unfortunately, it%26#39;s kind of buried and not easy to find.




Sorry! But you can link it in your posts the way we do with the Snorkeling page. When people as ';what to see'; just say ';look here for ideas'; and put the url





And I cannot find (for sure the one you mean) but show me and I%26#39;ll start using it too.



Thanks.





All the Inside pages are here, I think?



tripadvisor.com/Travel-g29217-s1/…20Do


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