Place of refuge

Hi this is Logan, we're having a great time here in Kona looking at beaches, snorkeling, and boogie -boarding. Yesterday, we went to Place of Refuge A.K.A Pu'uhonua o Honaunau.  I got to see a lot of Native Hawaiians houses, temples, and totem poles.

There is a very important game they played that is called "Konane"(ko-nah-nay), If any of you want to play here are the rules

Setup

Try to find a huge flat lava rock and carve 170 (maybe less) tiny craters so it makes a square, then put black and white rocks in the craters (can be different colors). To check if they are in the right place they should be the same color diagonally from every corner.

                                                                                     How to play

Sit across from each other. One player puts a pebble in each hand, then puts hands behind their back. Present closed hands to your opponent, who selects a hand, thereby selecting the color of pebble they will be playing with. Black pebble goes first.

Then Black removes a black rock from the board, White does the same.
Then Black jumps one white rock and removes it,White does the same. Players keep taking turns,you can only move diagonally. The player who makes the last jump wins!



Anyways the place of refuge is a place... well how do I explain it. So pretend that you are in the Native Hawaiian land and you were a law breaker, soon there would be guards and chiefs trying to kill you but you have 1 hope... to swim to the place of refuge that particular spot is were they wont kill you. So The Place of refuge is mostly a place of freedom. I have been having fun, I miss all of you!



This is a huge rock wall that separated the royal from the citizens,



this is us rowing canoes,

This is my little bro sitting in a bowl that Hawaiians used to dry salt water to get the salt,



This is me and my bro standing by a REAL tiki carving.


Aloha
         Logan