North Kohala
View from Kohala Country Adventures Guesthouse
Kapaau, North Kohala Hawaii
Really not much to say about it. Or is there?
A sleepy town by some standards. Still a bit of “Old Hawai”. “It seems like a place where the elephants go to die”, a visiting friend once stated.
The mill was still running. She was Queen.
The fields afire as mother cane snapped and was reduced to prepare for future offspring. Ash drifted through town, settling and lifting with the trades. It was an older world.
The whistle sang the changes in shift.
The roads accepted the debris of mud and occasional cane stalks gone AWOL from their chain encompassed trailer without complaint. The trucks ran 24 hours a day off muddy hills, hauling mother cane off to become sugar in my coffee.
Judgment was reserved. All were given opportunity to expose themselves.
Hawi Town, North Kohala
It’s quieter now and things have changed. Yet not that fast. I thought I spotted a elephant ambling though town last night after a few Coronas at Aunties Place in Hawi.
How long is the ride on the zipline?
You are driven in a six wheel drive vehicle about one half hour where there are 5 different gulches on the coarse of increasingly greater distance.