Travel 5 miles past scattered houses and cows along South Point Rd and this wind farm rises into view, with rows of high-tech windmills dotting the pastures down to the sea. Many are defunct – rusting leftovers from the older Kamaʻoa wind farm, which was replaced in 2007 with 14 new turbines pumping 21 megawatts of wind-generated power into the grid.
About 4 miles south of the wind farm, look for the white orb plopped in a field. Until 1965, this and the outlying buildings were a Pacific Missile Range Station that tracked missiles shot from California to the Marshall Islands.
