bachelorette finale
In last week’s episode of “The Bachelorette” set on Maui, Jillian Harris bade farewell — or aloha, rather — to Reid Rosenthal. On tonight’s two-hour season finale, at 8 p.m. on ABC, the restaurant interior designer from Vancouver, Canada, will choose between the two remaining bachelors, Ed and Kiptyn on Hawaii’s Big Island.
If you’ll be lapping up the scenery, along with the unfolding drama, you’ll be interested to know that the 29-year-old Harris will make her final, possibly life-altering decision on a private estate on the Kohala Coast, in the island’s northwest region.
But, until she gets there, we’ll see her take in an aerial tour by Sunshine Helicopters of Kilauea volcano’s lava flows (see a photo gallery of Kilauea eruptions here), with a landing next to a waterfall in Hilo for a barbecue put on by KapohoKine Adventures. An excursion hosted by Captain Zodiac Rafting Adventures, based near Kailua-Kona, will include a stop on a remote black-sand beach.
Dinner and “alone time” will commence at various resorts on the Kohala Coast: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel and the Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii.
Whether or not Harris and one of her two fine fellows find happiness ever after, the Aloha State’s tourism entities are hoping we viewers fall in love. The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau had a big hand in bringing the show to the state for filming.
