Captain Cook monument Kealakekua Bay
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My wife and I plan to spend a few days on the big island after completing a cruise from Papeete, Tahiti to Honolulu. We plan to go on a birding tour with Hawaii Forest & Trail one day, but would also like to visit the Kealakekua Bay area to see the Captain Cook monument. I am a long time student of Capt. Cook’s voyages, and I have visited the locals of many of his explorations, including Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and the Canadian Pacific Northwest.
I am told that the only way to see the monument is by boat or by a very rough trail. We are in our late seventies, so it sounds like the trail would be out of the question for us. Do you know of any place and company on Kealakekua Bay where we might rent or charter a small boat to go across the bay to see the monument? I am afraid kayaking also would be out of the question for us and our snorkeling days are over. Any information you can provide would be much appreciated.
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Most of the boats that go to Kealakekua Bay in the area of the monument leave from Keauhou Bay or Honokohau Boat Harbor, and there are several that do rafting or charters to Kealakekua for the purpose of snorkeling or scuba diving there. I can't personally recommend one that would do what you want, but I can point you in a general direction of these boats and you can contact them and see if they will do it for you.
You won't be able to leave from the other side of Kealakekua Bay because all that is there is a residential area and a concrete piling about 8 feet above the water. People can throw kayaks in and climb down, but that's about it.
These people seem to have small or private charters to the bay
Big Island Kayak - leaves from keauhou
Captain Zodiac - honokohau
Sea Quest Hawaii - honokohau
Sea Paradise - keauhou I think
Best of luck - let me know what you find out and email me again if you need more help. If you can't get to one of them via email, for example, I could call them for you as it would be a local call for me. Also, I only did an internet search here - if none of these pan out email me again and I'll pull out my island publications and see what I can find offline.
My wife and I plan to spend a few days on the big island after completing a cruise from Papeete, Tahiti to Honolulu. We plan to go on a birding tour with Hawaii Forest & Trail one day, but would also like to visit the Kealakekua Bay area to see the Captain Cook monument. I am a long time student of Capt. Cook’s voyages, and I have visited the locals of many of his explorations, including Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and the Canadian Pacific Northwest.
I am told that the only way to see the monument is by boat or by a very rough trail. We are in our late seventies, so it sounds like the trail would be out of the question for us. Do you know of any place and company on Kealakekua Bay where we might rent or charter a small boat to go across the bay to see the monument? I am afraid kayaking also would be out of the question for us and our snorkeling days are over. Any information you can provide would be much appreciated.
answer
Most of the boats that go to Kealakekua Bay in the area of the monument leave from Keauhou Bay or Honokohau Boat Harbor, and there are several that do rafting or charters to Kealakekua for the purpose of snorkeling or scuba diving there. I can't personally recommend one that would do what you want, but I can point you in a general direction of these boats and you can contact them and see if they will do it for you.
You won't be able to leave from the other side of Kealakekua Bay because all that is there is a residential area and a concrete piling about 8 feet above the water. People can throw kayaks in and climb down, but that's about it.
These people seem to have small or private charters to the bay
Big Island Kayak - leaves from keauhou
Captain Zodiac - honokohau
Sea Quest Hawaii - honokohau
Sea Paradise - keauhou I think
Best of luck - let me know what you find out and email me again if you need more help. If you can't get to one of them via email, for example, I could call them for you as it would be a local call for me. Also, I only did an internet search here - if none of these pan out email me again and I'll pull out my island publications and see what I can find offline.
posted by Lisa at 10:36 AM
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