Learning Adventures

History and Culture in Kau

Mooring Holes at South Point. Photo courtesy Big Island Visitor Bureau.

Ka Lae canoe rings: At the end of the 12-mile road to South Point, Ka Lae is a wild cliff-lined seashore—the southernmost point in the United States, and the conjectured first landfall of the first Polynesian voyagers in Hawaii. And carved through the lava here and there you can find rock loops that tied off fishing canoes a few hundred years ago.