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March 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A moment of serenity from our partner Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park.
If you know, you know.

#PUHO #TimelineCleanse #HawaiiParks
May 13, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our partner Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park will #reopen today at 10am.
The park's coastal areas did not experience significant damage during the overnight tsunami warning.
However, park staff do advise against swimming during today's high swells.

NPS Photo/Carly Scheid:

#PUHO
July 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Are you in the crowd with us at the annual Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park Festival? It’s is hula time!
🌴🌊🌸
#puuhonuaohonaunau #culturalfestival #hulahālau #parksupporter #hppa #puho
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 AM
On the Kona side of Hawai’i Island last week, there were swarms of brightly-colored canoes practicing & seriously racing the 18-mile Queen Lili’uokalani Long Distance Canoe Race course from Kailua Town to Hōnaunau Bay. 🌊🚣🏽‍♂️🚣‍♀️🚣🏽 🌊
Our Amanda at PUHO caught a few pics of canoes turning around in the bay!
September 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Happy #AlohaFriday from the serene and seemingly timeless grounds of our partner Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site on the coast of Hawaiʻi Island.
May your weekend be filled with time to reflect.
🌅
#PUHO #HawaiiParks
May 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
🎉 Hey, it looks like we have gained another 100 followers—wooohooo!
We love talking about national park support & engaging national parks supporters. 🌺🌋
Mahalo nui loa, thank you very much, for coming along with us through the national parks of Hawaiʻi & American Samoa! 🏞️🐢
#HPPA #NationalParks #PUHO
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
📸 Our Amanda, from the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP #HPPA store team, caught this sublime moment. She says:

🚣‍♂️🌊 “A scene repeated for hundreds of years — an outrigger canoe maneuvering just outside Keoneʻele Cove in Hōnaunau Bay, as part of the Queen Liliʻuokalani Canoe Race.”

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #PUHO
September 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Need a little #TuesdayMotivation and the sound of the ocean 🌊 in your ears?
Our partner Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park can help you with that on a lovely low tide morning. 🐠

This national park site is partly open but with limited services. Plan ahead for heat and humidity. 🌞

#PUHO
October 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park is now open.
The visitor center and park store will remain closed due to storm-related staffing shortages.
Mahalo!

Photo: Carly Scheid/PUHO

#PUHO #HPPA #LalaRecovery
August 18, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Park update:

Our partner Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on Hawaiʻi Island will be closed for Thanksgiving this Thursday, November 27, 2025. We will reopen on Friday, November 28. Mahalo!

#ParkUpdate #PUHO #HolidayClosure

IMG: PUHO/NPS
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Happy Monday!
HPPA's Amanda, on the park store frontline at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, asks: Can you spot the ʻaukuʻu at the Puʻuhonua fish ponds? 🤓🧐🤩
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#PUHO #Aukuu #MondayMorningMood #HawaiiParks #HawaiiBirds🪶
April 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Happy #AlohaFriday from the yellow tangs 💛🐠 feeding in this beautiful school just offshore of our partner Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on Hawai’i Island. Need to hear the ocean? 👂🏾🌊 Turn up the volume.

#hawaiiparks #PUHO #yellowtangsofinstagram
October 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🤫🤍 (Shhhhhhhhh. Very rare Hawaiian monk seal sleeping on the beach at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP.)
The Hawaiian monk seal 🌍🦭 estimated population is only 1,600 seals: 1,200 in the NW Hawaiian Islands, 400 in the main Hawaiian Islands.
They exist nowhere else in the world. 🌊🏝️
#monkseal #PUHO #precious
March 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
🌴 The Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park’s annual Hawaiian Cultural Festival & 64th anniversary celebration was today. 🎉

This year’s theme was E mau ana ka moʻolelo – Let the stories be perpetuated.

#PuuhonuaoHonaunau #PUHO #HawaiiParks #AnnualCulturalFestival #EMauAnaKaMoolelo
June 29, 2025 at 2:17 AM
HPPA’s Pete at our Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park visitor center store took a peaceful walk in the early morning on the park grounds as the air moved off the ocean through the palms & the light changed. He calls this video: Elements of Pu’uhonua.
🌴☀️🌊🌬️
#thisiswherewework #HPPA #PUHO
April 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Also Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Site.

Tsunami Warning — Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site, Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, and Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park Are Closed Until Further Notice.

#PUHO #KAHO #PUHE #TsunamiWarning #HawaiiParks
Tsunami Warning — Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site and Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park Are Closed Until Further Notice.

The National Weather Service has issued a #TSUNAMIWARNING. A series of powerful waves & strong currents may impact the park area. Closed until further notice.
July 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
It has been sloshy in Hawaiʻi, where big storms tracking to the south have been pushing big swells up at the islands.. 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
Amanda, at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store, took a walk on the park grounds & noticed the waves nearly swamping this kiʻi (carved image) that is set near the ocean.

#PUHO
August 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Somewhere over the rainbow at Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park... 🌈

Mahalo to our Amanda at the VC park store who is always on the lookout for the beauty inherent to that amazing Hawaiʻi national historical park.

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO #weworkhere #HawaiiParks #MahaloAmanda
December 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Sometimes the small moments that happen during the annual, HPPA-supported, national park cultural festivals are just too sweet for words. 🐟🐟🐟

This scene unfolded at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park in late June a few years ago.

#HawaiiParks #HPPA #PUHO #CulturalFestivals
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🍁 Happy November!
Join the cultural demonstrations at Puʻuhonua O Hōnaunau NHP this month:
SATURDAYS:
📅 NOV. 9 - ʻŌpelu Fishing & Net Making with Chuck Leslie and Krista in the Hale 🎣 9am-2pm
🤝 Hawaii Pacific Parks Association & Friends of PUHO sponsoring.
#CulturalDemonstrations #HPPA #PUHO
November 6, 2024 at 12:24 AM
🌴 In partnership with Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP, we celebrate February, ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi month.
The Hawaiian language is alive & thriving in Hawaiʻi! 🌿📖 6 of the 8 major HI Islands offer K-12 Hawaiian language immersion. 🏫🌊
📚 At our HPPA Park Store, Find Hawaiian Language resources.
IMGS: PUHO/NPS/HPPA
February 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Happy Aloha Friday from all the best perches and views in the national parks of Hawaiʻi and American Samoa!

Put a 🌴 in the comments if you have sat here, pondering the beauty of this national park site on Hawaiʻi Island.

#AlohaFriday #HawaiiParks #HaveYouBeenHere #PUHO
May 16, 2026 at 12:38 AM
HPPA's Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP park store is generous with her art. This photo of a black-crowned night heron on park grounds is called:

“ʻAukuʻu reflecting at the fishponds in the Royal Grounds at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park.” 🐦🌴💧

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
HPPA's Pete, on our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park store staff, loves a good before/after/lunch walk 🚶‍♂️🌞. The benefit of working in such a magnificent national park site is that his walks can look like this. 🌊😍

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ThanksPete #1871Trail #PuuhonuaOHonaunau #HPPA #PUHO
November 18, 2025 at 2:33 AM