Nearby Attractions
Kula Kai Caverns
http://www.kulakaicaverns.com/
Kula Kai Caverns is located right here in our Kula Kai View Estates subdivision. Experienced and knowledgeable guides offer spectacular and memorable adventures inside this braided thousand-year-old year old lava tube system. You'll learn about lava and the science of the caves, as well as how tubes are formed and the ways Hawaiians used them. Many say this is the highlight of their Hawaii vacation!
Reservations required for cave tours, please call (808) 929-9725
Located just on the outskirts Ocean View. A rolling, pastoral landscape on the slopes of the largest volcano on the planet.
On July 3, 2003, Kahuku Ranch became public land, part of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. The Nature Conservancy helped bridge the $22 million purchase price. As part of the National Park system, Kahuku is managed to “...conserve the scenery and natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations."
South Point
Ka Lae, also known as South Point, is the southernmost point of the Big Island of Hawaii and of the 50 United States. The Ka Lae area is registered as a National Historic Landmark District under the name South Point Complex. The area is also known for its strong ocean currents and winds and is the home of a wind farm.
Green Sand Beach
Located at the very end of South Point Road in South Point.
Green sand beach is officially known as Papakōlea. The beach itself is carved in a 49.000 years old cinder cone belonging to the Mauna Loa volcano that contains the green crystals (olivines) that give the beach its name. It is one of two green sand beaches in the United States and one of only four in the entire world.
Southernmost Bakery in the USA located on a 4-acre tropical estate in Na'alehu, Hawaii. Baking Hawaiian Sweetbread, Malasadas, Cookies and more daily!
Whittington Beach State Park
Whittington Beach State Park is a beautiful shoreline overlooking Honuapo Bay. This area gives the visitor a powerful perspective on Hawaiian history with beautiful marine life thriving in its’ waters. Named after Richard Henry Whittington in 1948, this 82+/- acre park is popular with the locals on weekends, where families enjoy its outdoor amenities and ocean activities. The park is generally quiet on the weekdays. This location is a popular camping destination because of its shelters, bathrooms, abundant parking, picnic tables, showers and just about everything (except fresh drinking water). Fishing is one of the most popular activities on this beach, with fishermen coming to its shore for hundreds of years taking advantage of the abundant variety of sea life. Today, this area is visited frequently by Green Hawaiian Sea Turtles, synonymous with its designation as Honuapo, or “turtle cove”.
Punalu'u Black Sands Beach
Located approximately 30 miles north east of Ocean View.
Punaluʻu beach is the most famous black sand beach of Hawaii. Two reasons for the popularity of this beach are the gorgeous black sand beach *and* the fact that you can often see endangered Hawksbill turtles and green sea turtles basking in the sun on the beach. The sand at the beach is made of small pitch-black fragments of lava. Try picking up a handful when you are at the beach to see if you can still recognize some of the larger parts as coming from an old lava flow!
Located in Pahala, free tours are offered daily from 11am-1pm
We call the tour “Seed to Cup.” Each tour starts in the field near the coffee trees. Here we cover the history of Ka’u from the sugar days that were dominated by the Big five sugar companies. We then cover the decline of sugar in the State, and more importantly the district of Ka‘u. We provide a brief geology lesson on the soils and why we have the ash soil here in Ka‘u, as well as how ash soil provides us our water the impact on coffee in this historic region of the Big Island.