Big Island, Hawai'i

Jon and Teresa will be married on the Big Island, Hawai'i. It will be an outdoor ceremony near the sea at Turtle Pointe. A rehersal dinner will be held the night before the wedding on November 16th. A reception will follow the wedding at Brown's Beach House Knoll. The married couple will also be traveling to Oahu and Maui after a stay on the big island.

The Island of Hawaiʻi (called the Big Island or Hawaiʻi Island) is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean and one of the eight main islands that compose the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. Larger than all of the other Hawaiian Islands combined, Hawaiʻi is said to have been named for Hawaiʻiloa, the legendary Polynesian navigator who first discovered it.

Tourist Information

The Big Island is famous for its volcanoes. Kīlauea, the most active, has been erupting almost continuously for more than two decades. At the coast where the lava meets the ocean, one can sometimes see billows of white steam rising from off the shoreline. At night, the lava lights up the steam to give an orange glow. When the molten lava makes contact with the ocean, the sea water turns into steam, and the sudden cooling of the lava causes the newly formed lava rocks to explode and crack into small pieces. The broken up lava is further ground into black sands along the shore by the ocean waves. Black sand beaches are common on the Big Island.

 

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