Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Wow!
Could be.
Kids would wander out there looking, you know. You have to be careful where you step
out there. We never had pilikia, we saw them, they have fins in the back end. But that old
irrigation (‘auwai) system is ingenious, as it is coming from above Kohaköhau Falls over
here. And going across, there’s a big ditch that went across, which is a lovely thing in the
morning, if you come up from the Wai‘aka Junction.
Right about here
Okay. And you drive up this road, like 7:30 in the morning, you look up toward the hill and
you see all these ridges going across.
Yes.
And they go all the way across to Pu‘uhue.
Amazing!
They go right through Kahuä.
In all irrigated or cultivated fields
No, that’s dry land.
All dry land fields
From Kohaköhau.
Terracing like, all the way across
Yes. The Kohaköhau, wherever that waterfall is behind the manager’s house, Hartwell’s
Here’s Hartwell’s place.
Okay, right. Coming here, there’s a ditch, I walked along in here, it’s up high, you don’t
see it when you drive up this road, but you do see the ridges.
Yes. I’ve actually walked out along here from HPA, from the back up, because there was
some interest in that ditch and things. I guess the Bell’s, Kealohanui
Down below
Aunty Mary Bell them live just, had a Grant lot in behind there.
That’s way down, right by the football field.
Right by the intersection, yes, that’s right.
And they sold that to Parker Ranch, or exchanged, I’m not sure.
Was that on the mauka side of the road
Yes, just mauka.
That stone wall, oh, that’s who was in there. I remember going in there looking for bottles
when it was Parker Ranch. I never knew though.
Yes, I think this is the lot that’s marked right there.
Right by the football field.
Kauniho and Keoniki, yes, right by the football field. So you folks, I think you said, that it
was like in about the ‘50’s. You were able to take cattle down to Puakö though as well,
you were holding cattle down in the Puakö area
That’s right.
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