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Looking northwest to the Pacific Ocean. The scenic drive along Hawaii State Route 19 between Kailua-Kona and Kawihae on the Big Island of Hawaii's alternates between fresh lava flows less than 200 years old from nearby Hualalai and dry leeward scenery. You won't find any tropical rainforest on this end of the island.
This series of sunset shots was taken while on a sunset dinner cruise off the coast of the Hawaiian Island of Oahu.
Kailua is a census-designated place (CDP) in Hawaiʻi County, Hawaii, United States, in the North Kona District of the Island of Hawaiʻi. The population was 11,975 at the 2010 census. It is the center of commerce and of the tourist industry on West Hawaiʻi. Its post office is designated Kailua-Kona to differentiate it from the larger Kailua located on windward Oʻahu, and it is sometimes referred to as "Kona" in everyday speech. The city is served by Kona International Airport, located just to the north in the adjacent Kalaoa CDP. Kailua-Kona was the closest major settlement to the epicenter of the 2006 Hawaiʻi Earthquake.
The community was established by King Kamehameha I to be his seat of government when he was chief of Kona before he consolidated rule of the archipelago, and it later it became the capital of the newly unified Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. The capital later moved to Lāhainā, then, to Honolulu. Royal fishponds at Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park were the hub of unified Hawaiian culture. The town later functioned as a retreat of the Hawaiian royal family. Up until the late 1900s, Kailua-Kona was primarily a small fishing village. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the region has undergone a realestate and construction boom fueled by tourism and investment.
Kailua is the start and finish of the annual Ironman World Championship triathlon, the annual Kona Coffee Festival, and the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament.
Kona coffee is the variety of Coffea arabica cultivated on the slopes of Hualālai and Mauna Loa in the North and South Kona Districts.
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Hawaiian Airlines hosted a special media event at the Garden Terrace of the Halekulani to showcase recent upgrades to its in-flight meals and hospitality initiatives, as well as to discuss its history, current growth, and long-term strategy.
For more information read: Hawaiian Airlines upgrades in-flight meals, hospitality
LANAI, Hawaii -- National guardsmen wait to escort patients to providers here June 7, 2013. Over 540 military personnel from multiple components of the Air Force, Army and Navy gathered on four Hawaiian Islands at six sites as part of a joint training mission called TROPIC CARE 2013 – an Innovative Readiness Training project June 4 to 12, 2013, to care for medically-underserved Hawaiians. National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. N. Alicia Goldberger.