| | | Between the two extreme differences in landscape lies a small town on the South shore, almost dead smack in the middle, known as Kaunakakai and in the same time, Kaunakakai is the main city on Molokai.
There’s no buildings over three stories, no elevators, no traffic lights (and not much traffic either), no amusement parks, night clubs, nor even a McDonald’s. Even the airport at Ho’olehua on the flats just to the North of Kaunakakai is so small that jets do not regularly service the island. And the folks that live on and visit Molokai like it that way, because it helps breed the lifestyle of peace and quiet. |
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| Kanemitsu Bakery, Morning, noon, and night, this local legend fills the Kaunakakai air with the sweet smells of baking. Taro lavosh is the hot seller, joining Molokai bread -- developed in 1935 in a cast-iron, kiawe-fired oven as a Kanemitsu signature. Flavors range from apricot-pineapple to mango | | |
| Big Daddy's Store & Restaurant. This small café serves traditional Filipino dishes. The day's menu is handwritten on a piece of paper. Offerings include Filipino-style baked chicken, Pinakbet (vegetables in sauce), Dinardaran (meat soaked in pig's blood, which doesn't sound very appetizing, but is a Filipino favorite) and the house specialty, Butter Fish. For desert order Butter Mochie, my favorite. | | |
| St. Sophia Catholic Church, | | |
| Honor Roll, | | |
| Molokai Fish and Dive, shop for activities, kayaking, fishing, diving, camping and snorkeling | | |
| Kaunakakai Harbor is both a recreational and commercial harbor | | |
| Moloka'i Coffee Company has cultivated, processed, roasted and sold coffee from Moloka'i for many years | | |
| Ka Hale Laa - O Jerusalema Hou | | |
| This coconut grove was planted in the 1860's by King Kamehameha V. The King, nicknamed Kapuaiwa, selected this site because of the seven sacred ponds located here. He had 1,000 tall, royal coconut palm trees planted here to represent each warrior in his mighty army and to shade his sacred bathing pools of the ali'i (royalty). | | |
| Kapuaiwa Coconut Grove, | | |
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