Park
Kaʻena Point State Park
HQH7+H4M, Waialua, HI 96791, USA
Wind-scoured coastal dunes and cliffs where an ancient legend says souls leapt into the afterlife.
This guide to Kaʻena Point State Park in Honolulu opens with the Hawaiian belief that this point marked leina a ka uhane, the leaping place where souls departed for the afterlife. It then turns to a modern restoration: generations of rats, cats and dogs devastating ground-nesting seabirds here, and the predator-proof fence conservationists strung across the point in 2011 to stop them. Listen for what changed among the albatross and shearwaters afterward.
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