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Kam statue in North Kohala
Original King Kamehameha Statue, Kohala

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Here you will find free photographs of the Kohala/North Kohala area and the Kohala coast from Waipio Valley on the windward side of Kohala mountain, to Puako in the South Kohala District. Kohala is the birthplace of King Kamehameha the great. The original statue stands in small town of Kapa'au just several miles from Mookini Heiau and Kamehameha's Birthplace.

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Recieved an email from someone concerned with my abbreviation of Kamehameha to Kam the other day. Thanks. Following is the defination of Kamehameha as close as I can find:   This is Hawai'ian, not Japanese. The root of the word is "meha" and that means quiet (among other things -- Hawai'ian is a language where context is critical to meaning). When you see Hawaiian words joined like "mehameha" it usually is the comparative or superlative like fast is to faster or fastest, or some extra special quality like "lightning fast", so in this case it literally means "extremely quiet" but when you add the prefix "ka" you are adding a definite article "the" and therefore personalized, and it is usually translated as "the lonely one" because, well, Kamehameha was king and euphemistically speaking, it's lonely at the top -- he was also known as very thoughtful, and if you think about it, people who are thoughtful are often contemplative and therefore quiet.

Hawaiian Reflections of Richard Kauhi and His Piano, "Muliwai".

 


I've been in the North Kohala District since 1973 and have watched it change from a sleepy little cane town to a little drowsy, mac nut, cattle, tourist town.  The people are still friendly and it is still located just at the edge of the world.
 
Watch slide show of Kamehameha day 2004, 2006

I hear the whistle. I can feel it.  Calling out a start for some men, a change of shift. This land is a caring mother. The earth was life, Sugar was Queen. Many years she sang to men, Men at home. Men in the field.  I smile now and listen.

Now, the fire in the fields has died. The land that was the mother of the sugar in my tea, has been fenced in.

The stack above the boiler room is gone, but the whistle I still hear. Many times through the years I would her singing loud and clear from town.

Now the voice that sang a century, and ruled the lives of families is gone.

The ash drifted down in silent flakes throughout town as the fields were burned. Trucks at all hours, day and night. Mud on the road . No one complained.

We roamed where we wished then, there were no fences. Some cut chains when Cane went away. Cages are difficult for a free man.

The pavement turned to gravel outside Hawi. A town just outside of time.

The stack above the boiler room is gone.

Few, to no tall trees were seen.  No one moving in and closing the gate behind them. We knew this land and no one complained of trespass. We ran on steep, muddy cane roads. We looked around in the evenings and saw a panoramic ocean view. It seems trees grow very fast, fences sprang up overnight.  

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Kamehameha Day Parade 2011 North Kohala

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South Kohala, Puako

Puako Hawaii

Kam day parade

Kam Day Parade

Pololu Valley from the air

Pololu Valley North Kohala

Kamehameha's Birthplace

Kamehameha's Birthplace

Photos of the Kamehameha Day Celebration June 11 2009 here in Kohala.