Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Yes. Rally, when you mentioned ‘Öma‘okoili that’s the set of hills and there’s the stone
wall from the old Sheep Station section around it The stone walls, is that right Off the
‘a‘ä
‘Öma‘okoili is from Pöhakuloa going straight through.
Yes. Straight through, so past the State Park
The way that the old road used to go. Now it goes down to the ‘a‘ä.
That’s right. So the old road from where the State Park is now, went straight through to
Kalai‘eha
That’s right.
That’s right. Not the big jag that we see now.
Yes.
And of course…
The boundary fence between Parker Ranch and State land was right next to ‘Öma‘okoili
and when it rained at Humu‘ula, we’d take the sheep down and hold ‘em inside the forest
reserve by ‘Öma‘okoili and dry ‘em out because there’s always hot sun. You wait till
afternoon when the uhiwai is kind of pau, then you take the sheep back, put ‘em in the
shed at Humu‘ula for the next day.
Oh yes. Wow!
When it was wet weather at Humu‘ula we take the sheep down there to dry ‘em out.
At ‘Öma‘okoili side, oh.
Yes.
Now you folks, one of the things that Waiki‘i did if I understand it. From the sheep at
Kalai‘eha, Humu‘ula section, you folks occasionally would drive sheep from there out to
Waiki‘i and hold them
Hmm, we’d bring ‘em in the afternoon from Kalai‘eha to Pu‘u Mau‘u, and then the next
day early we bring ‘em from Pu‘u Mau‘u sometimes to Waiki‘i. But usually down from
Nohonaohae nui.
You pass Waiki‘i Was it along this old section of road or out on a trail
Right down this main road.
Right on the main road. And down to Nohonaohae nui and there was a holding paddock
there or pä loa
Yes, a big paddock there. The paddock where the hill is. The sheep used to go inside
that paddock.
Hmm. And then the sheep from there, you walked ‘em to Waimea or truck
Walk ‘em to Waimea.
Walk ‘em to Waimea.
And then walk ‘em to Kawaihae.
Wow!
That is before, but later we used to truck ‘em down.
Yes. Some life it must have been yes, the work out here with the corn fields. There
weren’t sheep out here when you folks were young at Waiki‘i Were there Were they
keeping sheep out here Sheep
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