Keoneʻōʻio Bay, also known as La Perouse, is at the end of the road, many miles south of Wailea. La Perouse is a dramatic and ancient landscape of expansive jagged lava rock plains (a'a), incredible blue water bays, spectacular views of Kahoʻolawe, and white corral rocks strewn amongst the black lava.
This year we celebrated Summer Solstice over two days to visit power spots on Maui. Our plan was to catch sunset at Haleakala but we were rained out. So we headed for the dry side and stopped first at our favorite beach in Makena. It was packed! In past years it has always been empty. We talked about our goals and visions and mission for Five Invitations - Rescue, Heal, Love, Serve, Protect. After the beach we headed for a power spot on the dry side, Keoneʻōʻio Bay, more popularly known as La Perouse.
From Wikipedia:
In 1786, La Pérouse surveyed and mapped the prominent embayment near the southern cape of Maui opposite the island of Kahoʻolawe. The bay is the site of Maui's most recent volcanic activity, about 500 years ago. The rounded peninsula that dominates the northern half of the bay and extends up the coast a short distance was formed about 900,000 years ago by an eruption of basalticlava that originated in the southernmost landward expression of the Haleakalā Southwest Rift Zone. A small string of cinder cones extending inland to the northeast marks the axis of the rift zone.
