Hawaii: Chapter 4 - South Point

After spending an amazing 4 days in Kona, we headed south out of town with Volcano National Park as our Destination. In order to reach the far windward side coming from the leeward side you must drive around the southern tip of the big island, which also happens to be the southern most point in the United States! So of course I had to drive there, its roughly 15 miles off the main road to the lighthouse at the tip of the Big Island.
Our guidebook mentioned a Green Sand Beach, after the Black Sand Beach, so we left the jeep and began hiking, unfortunately we arrived too close to sunset and were turned back before finding either beach...
South Point as its called on the map; this was probably the best sunset we saw our entire time in Hawaii.

Gorgeous colors in the setting sun over a rocky volcanic cove.

Unlike some geographical landmarks, there was no bright fancy plaque or memorial dedicating this as the southern most point, so I just got a snap shot by the jeep and figured this one could count for any....