Kawehewehe (kă-we'he-we'he):
/ kă-we'he-we'he /the opening. Reef entrance, Oahu.
Kawehewehe
/ Ka-wehewehe /Reef entrance and channel off Grey's Beach, just east of the Halekūlani Hotel, Waikīkī, Honolulu, Oʻahu. The sick were bathed here as treatment. The patient might wear a seaweed (limu-kala) lei and leave it in the water as a request that his sins be forgiven, the lei being a symbol. Literally, the removal.
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Kawehewehe
Beach, channel, Waikīkī, Oʻahu. Small pocket of calcareous sand on the east side of the Halekūlani Hotel. The channel goes through the reef between Paradise and Number Threes surf sites. The beach is also known as Gray's Beach. The channel is also known as Gray's Channel, Halekūlani Channel. Lit., the removal. The sick were bathed here to "remove" their sickness.
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