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85 Ha‘aheo o Hawai‘i. Shipwreck, Hanalei, Kaua‘i. The Ha‘aheo o Hawai‘i was the Hawaiian monarchy’s first royal yacht, an 83-foot vessel purchased in 1820 for $90,000 by King Kamehameha II. She went aground and sank on Wai‘oli Reef at the hands of an irresponsible crew. The ship was located in 1995 and excavated by a team lead by Paul Johnston, the curator of Maritime History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Lit., pride of Hawai‘i. Hâ‘ena. 1. Beach park, Hâ‘ena, Kaua‘i. Calcareous sand beach bordering the wide bay between Mâkua Reef to the east and Hauwa Reef to the west, with vegetated sand dunes in the backshore. Across the road from Maniniholo Cave. 2. Point, Hâ‘ena, Kaua‘i. Wide point inshore of Mâkua Reef to the east of Hâ‘ena Beach Park. Also known as Tunnels. 3. State park (230 acres), Hâ‘ena, Kaua‘i. Calcareous sand beach between Limahuli Stream and the end of Highway 56. Fronted by shallow reefs and backed by dunes vegetated with ironwood trees. The west end of the park, or Kè‘è Beach, is the start of the 11-mile Kalalau Trail to Kalalau Valley. Several important archaeological sites associated with the hula are located here, including Ke Ahu o Laka, a platform where the hula was performed , and Kauluapaoa Heiau, a temple dedicated to Laka, the deity of the hula. The house on the point belonged to John Allerton and was acquired by the state upon his death in 1986. Lit., red-hot. mo‘olelo I retired from the Kaua‘i Police Department in 1975. I was born and raised at the end of the road in Hâ‘ena. Our home was near Limahuli Stream, and my parents named it Pe‘e Kaua‘i. That means “Kaua‘i hide-a-way.” The Hawaiians gave names to all the places where food was gathered. The names were important because when you were on foot, carrying gear and fishing h Hâ‘ena 86 h equipment, you wanted to be sure you went to the right place and got there at the right time. When we would throw nets on the ‘âpapa, the reefs, we started at low tide with the deepest reef and then as the tide came in, we worked our way to the shallowest reef. We fished on all the reefs from Wainiha to Kè‘è. The first reef west of Hâ‘ena Beach Park is Po‘ohau, and the rocks on the beach are called Halepòhaku. Then the reef gets wider and below the Wichman’s house there’s a small pond, Hauwa, and a large pond, Paweaka. Paweaka gets up to waistdeep during high tide, and this is the he’e [octopus] ground. The surfing spot Cannons is offshore. Then there’s a channel, and the reef across the channel is Pu‘u Kahuaiki. The surfing spot Bobo’s is offshore. The other end of the reef is Pu’u Kahuanui, a high reef that is out of the water even at high tide. The “iki” and “nui” in these names do not refer to the size of the reef, but rather to the depth. It’s more like low reef and high reef. We used to call Pu’u Kahuanui the “last chance” reef because this is where we would end up last. Then there’s a small reef, Puakala, and Poholokeiki, the channel where Limahuli Stream goes into the ocean. Simeon Maka told me the name Poholokeiki sometime in the 1930s. During high tide the channel current is very swift, and with the steep sandbank close to shore, you can easily lose your footing and be swept into the channel. Across the channel is the long reef at Hâ‘ena State Park. Ka‘îlioiki is the first section of the reef, and Ka‘îlionui is the second near Kè‘è. Ka‘îlionui monk seals were frequently seen in the area up to the 1940s. Maniniholo is the bay at Hâ‘ena Beach Park. We used to hukilau there from July to August. The first reef east of the beach park is Waikalua, then there’s the big reef Makua at Tunnels. Then there’s the channel at Hâ‘ena Point where the windsurfers go in and out. The next reef is Kanahâ, and there were always big schools of kala on this ‘âpapa. We used to get piliko‘a there, too...
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