Welcome to Kohala Gallery
Where You will find free photographs of the North Kohala area. Kohala is the birthplace of King Kamehameha the great. The original statue stands in Kapa'au.

Photographs are of the Kohala/North Kohala area either by me or others who have agreed to share pictures of the "Big Island" of Hawaii Enjoy and please share your moments in Hawaii.

Places to stay in Kohala.

Kohala Country Adventures Guesthouse

Hawi Hideaway

Kohala Gardens Hideaway

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.  

Do you remember the shark hunts at Upolu?

Orchid in yard. Kohala Hawaii

Dave Gomes Guitars for your custom guitars and ukulele's

Kohala Hawaii is Hawaii.