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TALK STORY

Stretching from Kawaihae around the northenmost tip of the Big Island, past the end of the paved road at Pololu, holds secrets from the past.  The history of Kohala has been stories, passed from generation to generation in chants, sometimes in parables and metaphors, shrouded in uncertainty as the misty cliffs that border North Kohala. 

Into Pololu:

Many sections of the valley are on private property and only accessible through tours or with permits, which would take you through remote ecosystems, previously off-limits to the public.

This hike to Kapoloa Fall, took you past streams and bridges.  The area was much cooler and more bucolic than the coast.  There is a sliver of a bridge, built in 1906, that brought us to the first flume.  Migrant laborers tenaciously dug tunnels through the mountains and built water-carrying sections (flumes), which transported fresh water from the waterfalls to the thirsty sugar-cane fields down below.  The area prospered until 1975, when the sugar plantations were shut down.