On prior trips I made the mistake of rushing past this part of the Big Island, located about an hour from Captain Cook and from Volcano.
Certainly those and other areas of the Big Island allow you to see things that are l pictured on postcards.
This is near the southern-most point of any state. And a refreshing, new National Park (Thurs-Sun) which features a former ranch, explores the original peoples’ lives and cultures (their guides hiking tours are great). Also nearby various farms offer tours of where they grow and prepare (and, you can taste) chocolate, macadamia nuts, and (Ka’u and Kona) coffee.
If you take a moment to pause here, then you, too, will hear an orchestra of bird songs and coqui frogs, taste garden-fresh fruits and vegetables (purchased) from the host’s end-of-the-driveway kiosk, breathe the cleanest and freshest air blown in from thousands of miles of open ocean, smell nature’s bouquet emerging from the woods and from the property’s beautiful garden.
But what may surprise you, too, is how this area generally and Ka’Haiya personally resonates calm refreshing comfort.