Looking out the airplane window as it landed at Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport at Keāhole (KOA) on the Island of Hawaiʻi felt more like being in a rocket ship touching down on Mars, with black lava rock lining the runway and stretching for miles along the island’s coastline.
In 2013, SeaWorld San Diego was dealt a pretty serious black eye due to fallout from a movie called “Blackfish,” which told a tragic story about a SeaWorld trainer that was killed by one of the park’s Orcas.