Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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To reach Kona side and this side [gesturing towards Waiko‘eko‘e-Hämäkua] , too much
rain. From summer we bring the cattle back, we move the cattle back and forth.
Hmm. You talk about weather time, they moved the pipi like summer they could come
down
Come back this way.
Come up mauka, Pä‘auhau, Waiko‘eko‘e like that
Makahälau side.
Makahälau. Winter time too wet over there, so they push the pipi down to the Waiköloa
lands
Uh-hmm. Like Waiköloa, Ke‘ämoku side, we got the kona wind, the rain.
Yes, rains would come in.
We don’t have that.
No, it’s different.
Usually about September, October, we get makai rain, so get feed. On this side the
summer gets hot, so the grass comes up fast. In the olden days, this wild oats, hoo, high!
Grew high. Good feed, yeah.
Good feed. But this kikuyu killed it all out.
Kill it out, you hardly see it any more. And now you look out here on the kula, Holoholokü
to Waiki‘i that fire weed, yellow.
Yes, fire weed.
Going take everything over.
Everything, even here, you look.
Yes.
Too bad though.
You know the ranch had big land before. Now they’re selling the good lands off. They
also had Kahuku side right, Ka‘ü
They sold Kahuku long time ago.
Did you ever go out to Kahuku
Yes, I did.
How did you go out to Kahuku, with the ranch
We have six or seven of us, go Kahuku, brand.
Did you ride over the mountain or you drive
No, go on the car.
On the car already. You never drove pipi between the mountains like that
No, never did.
Earlier days
Yes. I worked…twice a year we used to go over there for branding.
When did you retire from the ranch
In 1990, after fifty-two years, fifty-two years, seven months, I worked.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:273