The coast in 360°
Stand on the trail before you get there.
Forty-five panoramas photographed on and beside the Ala Kahakai, from ʻUpolu Point to Punaluʻu, arranged by chapter. Each loads on tap; drag to look around, and use the arrows inside the view to move where the imagery continues. The satellite tile shows exactly where the photographer stood.
Imagery is Google Street View and contributed photospheres, embedded from Google Maps and credited on each card. It is a demonstration of what a continuous, trail-owned capture would look like; the corridor between the parks still has no immersive record of its own.
Chapter 1 · Kohala
The northern end.
Coverage thins out here: nothing yet at ʻUpolu Point or Moʻokini. Māhukona and Kapaʻa Beach Park give the feel of the Kohala shore south of the terminus.
Chapter 2 · Kawaihae
Puʻukoholā and the Kohala coast trail.
The best-covered stretch: the heiau, Spencer and Hāpuna beaches, Waialea, the Puakō boat ramp, the petroglyph trail at Holoholokai, the Mauna Lani fishponds and ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay, in trail order.
Chapter 3 · Kaʻūpūlehu
Kīholo to Kekaha Kai.
Kīholo Bay, the Kūkiʻo shoreline on the 1801 flow, and the beaches of Kekaha Kai State Park.
Chapter 4 · Kaloko-Honokōhau
Fishponds, the harbor, and Kailua town.
Kua Bay, both fishponds inside the national park, ʻAiʻōpio, Honokōhau Harbor, and the Kailua-Kona seafront where the trail becomes Aliʻi Drive.
Chapter 5 · Kealakekua
The bay.
Kahaluʻu, Nāpōʻopoʻo and Hikiau Heiau, the Cook monument at Kaʻawaloa, and Keʻei.
Chapter 6 · Hōnaunau
The Place of Refuge and the 1871 Trail.
Two Step, the puʻuhonua itself, the Alahaka Ramp and Kiʻilae Village on Google's own walk down the 1871 Trail, and Hoʻokena.
Chapter 7 · Manukā
The wild south.
Miloliʻi and Honomalino, and the Manukā wayside up on the highway. Nothing yet on the Road to the Sea or at Pōhue Bay, which says something about those miles.
Chapter 8 · Kamāʻoa
Ka Lae, Papakōlea, and the Kaʻū beaches.
The southernmost point, Kalalea Heiau, the green sand at Papakōlea, Kaulana and Waiʻahukini, and the beach parks east toward Punaluʻu.