Kalepolepo Beach - Kihei, HI
Posted by: 
silverquill
N 20° 45.842 W 156° 27.051
4Q E 765410 N 2298127
This is a small pull-off park with parking for about eight cars, portable toilets and an outdoor shower, but it is access to a beautiful beach on Maaleaa Bay.
Waymark Code: WMDXZB
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2012
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This is another great beach on south Maui. The facilities are sparse - a few tabkes and only portable toilets, but the beach is terrific, heading from Kihei toward Lahaina. There is a historical marker here about David Malo and the development of this area.
David Malo at Kalepolepo
David Malo was a man of two worlds. An ali'l
(chief) and scholar of Hawaiian culture, he was
also a Christian. He warned his people to
hold on to the old ways - and helped write
Hawai'i's first constitution.
A Big Wave Comes In
Malo moved to Kalepolepo in 1843 to start a church. In his
wake came a deluge of Westerners. They built a whaling station,
trading post, schoolhouse, and second church at Kalepolepo --
and swept the village into a wider world.
Malo finished his church in 1852, but died the following year.
At his own request, mourners buried him on a Lahaina hillside,
"high above the tide of foreign invasion."
Visit David Malo's church at 100 Kulanihako'i Street,
just south of here.
If a big wave comes in, large and unfamiliar, fishes will come from the dark Ocean.
When they see the small fishes of the shallows, they will eat them up.
The white-man's ships have arrived with clever men from the big countries.
They will devour us."
-- David Malo
Whaling in Hawaiian waters, 1833
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