Pictures: 7 more. Price: $950,000 Fee Simple District: Kapalua Type: Vacant Land
Top of the Hill in Phase 1 with sunset views, whale watching and can see both Lanai and Molokai Island. Very level lot easy to build. Create your dream home from one of 6 plans to begin your retirement on Maui and have the Kapalua lifestyle. Swimming pool area has been redone. Large recreation center. tennis courts, Barbecue areas. Only lot listed in Phase 1. Begin today designing your Maui home.
Pictures: 10 more. Price: $1,099,000 Fee Simple District: Kapalua Type: Vacant Land
Excellent opportunity to begin the Maui lifestyle at the Plantation Estates Phase I in Kapalua. Lot 13 is very level for easy foundation work. The lot faces east for all of the early morning sunrises and the evening moon rise. On the right side sits a one story home on the gully between the lots for privacy on any home built on this lot. This lot is really a real gem for either a one or two story home. Close to restaurant and beach access and midst the Plantation Golf Course. This is a gem. This is the best priced lot in Phase I or II of Plantation Estates. See it today.
Pictures: 25 more. Price: $875,000 Fee Simple District: Wailuku Type: Single Family Beds: 3 Baths: 2.00
Bi-Coastal views of the harbor, Haleakala, Kahului lights at night. Spacious single level home that is being sold unfurnished. Enjoy the cool breeze and quiet cul -de-sac living in this newer subdivision above Wailluku. This home has many upgrades with solar hot water system, water softener with reverse osmosis purifier. GE Profile refrigerator and upgraded Microwave, new blinds throughout, designer colors on walls and trim, cherry wood flooring throughout. Total square footage = 2,770 with 1,887 interior space 482 Sq. ft garage 401 Sq. ft of covered lanais. Outside lanai has 3 glass doors for protection from wind. 40 yr. manufactuer's guarantee on roof and siding. Seller may consider some financing for 3 years with a good down payment.
Pictures: 14 more. Price: $148,000 Fee Simple District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Honokowai East Unit: 303 Baths: 1.00
Excellent starter home. Unit has been upgraded and nice views from this unit. Up high to get some breeze also. A very good complex that is near the beach and shopping at the stores with sidewalks for walking. Complex has a pool and tennis courts for easy relaxing. Quiet complex. Tenant occupied so must have 48 hours notice to show. Electric included in maintenance fee.
Pictures: 12 more. Price: $290,000 Fee Simple District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Honokowai East Unit: 112 Beds: 2 Baths: 1.00
Excellent home for first time buyers. Nice ground floor 2 bed 1 bath unit that is in very good condition with numerous upgrades. This is a nice quiet property with many home owners living here full time. Complex has a very nice pool and tennis courts and easy walk to shops and the beach is across the street. Tenant occupied so do need 48 hours to show. Electric is included in maintenance fees.
Great Golf townhouse right on the golf course with mountain and sunset views. Excellent condition as not in rental. Easy to show. This unit is very close to pool, restaurant, beach across the street for an easy walk. End of cul de sac location for privacy. Unit has street access. for easy entry.
Excellent Golf Villa right on the fairway. Great viewing for the LPGA game to be held next October. Lanai has been enclosed on dining side for more living area. Some oceanview. Unit has not been in rental pool. Golf Villas have 4 pools and easy walk to beach, tennis,restaurrants and all of the Kapalua amenities. Unit is in very good condition.
Pictures: 7 more. Price: $700,000 Fee Simple District: Kapalua Type: Condo Building: Kapalua Bay Villas I Unit: 17B-4 Beds: 1 Baths: 1.00 Potential Short Sale: Yes
OUTSTANDING VIEWS FROM THIS BRIDGE LEVEL UNIT. EXCELLENT RENTAL UNIT DUE TO LOCATION AND CENTRAL AC. SPECTACULAR LOCATION AND VERY COMFORTABLE LIVING. ANY OFFER AND SALE SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE CURRENT LENDER.
Great end unit at the top of the cul-de-sac for privacy. Four pools in Kapalua Golf Villas, short walk to tennis garden, restaurants, Kapalua Spa and beach. The unit is in good condition and in private rental program. Unit has central a/c and has some upgrades with the cabinets and tile. Fully furnished. Some view of the sunsets through the trees. Very nice for living as quiet and very private. Close walk to the new spa and shuttle will take you to all of the other Kapalua dining and beaches.
Very good views from living and dining area and kitchen. The Ridge has two very well located pools and also the big recreation room with kitchen and enclosed party room. The unit is well located to pool and short walk to office and beach across the street. This is a very good price for this unit. New carpet and has been kept up. Appliances are all in good working order. This is well priced for the market and you must see to appreciate living at the Ridge. Unit is being sold furnished with a few exclusions. This is a unit to see.
Along the beaches and sand dunes, especially along the southern coasts of many islands, pohuehue flourishes. This vigorous, trailing beach morning glory can grow to 16 feet long. It grows above the high-water line and is able to absorb salty water and thrive. The sun does not shrivel its leathery, thick leaves, which are between two and four inches long.
The vine has green stems several yards long and form roots at the joints (nodes). The main root is long - as much as 12 feet long and two inches thick. The numerous roots along its stems dig deep into the shifting sands and hold them firm. Landscapers and land managers have used it extensively to stabilize large areas of sand, preventing erosion from wind and waves. Pohuehue works better than the more technological solutions, it seems.
Occasionally the trailing vines may be seen planted inland, above sea level to the 1,500 foot elevation.
The scientific name for pohuehue translates as "the wormy vine with leaves like a goat's foot track." (The leaves are either an inverted heart shape or they are shaped like a goat's foot with a notch at the tip. Sometimes the leaves are broader than long, with two lobes folded up along the mid-vein.) This pretty much describes the plant, although it doesn't include a description of the typical funnel-shaped, mauve or dusty pink morning glory flowers with their five-pointed central stars. The flowers bloom singly or a few in a cluster. They tend to open up in the morning.
In ancient times, surfers apparently didn't have to wait for the cry, "Surf's up!" They called the waves to them. Each surfer yanked at the stems and dived into the water. They would swing the vines around their heads and bring them forcefully down, lashing the water in unison as they chanted,
"Arise, arise, ye great surfs...
The powerful, curling waves.
Arise with the pohuehue,
Well up, long raging surf."
More practically, the vines had many uses. The vines served as cordage in home construction and for weaving baskets and fishnets. The vines were sometimes used to drive fish into waiting nets. In legend the long stems of the pohuehue were stripped and tied together to form hawsers several hundreds of feet long. These sturdy cables were used to lower heroes deep down into the underworld of departed spirits.
Small amounts of the plant roots and leaves were used as famine food and also as an ingredient in preparations that treated lung trouble, sprains and as a blood cleanser. The young leaf buds were eaten by pregnant women. Stems were cut into short lengths and slapped onto the breasts of women who had just given birth. The plant's milky white sap, with help from the god Ku and the goddess Hina, was supposed to stimulate the flow of milk to feed the newborn baby. After circumcision, the lavender trumpet flowers were placed over a small boy's penis where the flower quickly shriveled, covering the sore spot. The enclosing blossom helped promote quicker healing. Besides this, the seeds were eaten for their laxative effect.
Typically there are four small downy seeds contained in little round woody capsules, which are excellent floaters that remain viable after months at sea. In this way the plant colonized the islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the surrounding continental landmasses.
There were at least three or four walled fishponds, loko kuapa, built along the Kihei coastline, the name of only one still remains. Ko'ie'ie Pond lies at Ka'ono'ulu Beach County Park along South Kihei Road between the Menehune Shores apartment building and the office of the Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. It is also known as Kalepolepo fishpond and is on both the National and State Registries of Historical Sites. According to one source, among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands, Hawaiians were the only ones to develop a true aquaculture by using ponds to raise fish (as opposed to just trapping them with weirs).
The ancient fishpond was built sometime in 1400 to 1500 AD. Many stories connect the pond to the ali'i of the time since it was a royal pond, stocked with the best fish for the use of the highest chiefs and their extended families.
"Ko'ie'ie" means "rapid current." It is a walled pond using lava rock and coral walls to keep the water circulating while a wooden sluice gate called a makaha lets small fish enter the pond to feed but prevents them from leaving once they get big. The walls of the pond had to stand two or three feet above the high-tide level. It took many, many rocks to make these long walls.
Historian Samuel Kamakau wrote that a land with many fishponds, loko i'a, was called a "fat" land, 'aina momona. The ponds not only beautified the area, as Kamakau said, but also were a reliable source of food. Kamakau argues that their presence speaks for the peaceable nature of the people of the area. Otherwise, he says, they would not have been able to "work together in unity to make the walls that enclosed the ponds." The bigger ponds were a large civic project and required a time of peace and a large labor force commanded by a king with skilled engineers.
In fact, the coastline that includes the Ko'ie'ie Pond was called Ka Ipu Kai a Hina (the meat dish of Hina) and was famous for its abundance of fish.
When the stonework was done and the sturdy timbers for the sluice gate were put into place, ceremonial offerings of prayers by the kahuna (priests) asked for ho'oulu i'a, to make the fish population increase. During the nights of the full moon and high tides, a keeper, the kahu kia'i loko, stood in a shelter beside the sluice gate to guard against thieves. As the fish came pouring in, the kahu would cry out, "Ola ka 'aina!" (Life has come to the land!)
Once the walled pond was completed and fish began to fill it, the pond could be efficiently run by a small group of specialists who were often an extended family who worked the pond for the chief.
Farmed fish in ancient Hawaiian aquaculture included fish that naturally lived in lagoons and inside the rocky recesses of reef and shore: 'anae and 'ama'ama (mullet), 'o'opu (guppies), manini (convict tang) and 'aholehole (Hawaiian flagtail), as well as 'opae (shrimp) and puhi (eels). At high tide, the pond would be filled with many other sea fish, including the ulua (crevalle and pompano), kahala (amberjack), kumu (goat fish), palani (surgeonfish), 'o'i'o (bonefish) and uhu (parrot fish).
The ocean fish that swam into the pond at high tide were considered to be drawn to the pond by the prayers of the kahuna and were reserved for the ali'i. Despite heavy penalties for breaking the kapu, however, poaching was a problem.
The fish were kept in the pond to breed and their offspring were "raised like pet pigs" so they could be caught by hand. The common food on which the fish were raised was taro, according to one source. In the months when the southerly kona winds blew, the fish were taken to be eaten by the ali'i and their entourage or for barter. Around that time the sluice gate would be choked with fish persistently swimming into the fresh wind. If they were not taken at that time, they would die in the warm sun.
Over the years, as the times brought more and more changes and the old ways were forgotten, the pond was neglected and silt and sand filled it as the relentless waves overcame the stone walls and broke it down. In 1996, 'Ao'ao O Na Loko I'a O Maui (Association of the Fishponds of Maui) began renovating Ko'ie'ie Pond, working with the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. The restoration of the pond which was such a part of the history of the area was a good thing.
Over the next couple of months we will share information on Maui place names based on district. This month's subject: West Maui.
Lāhainā:
Cruel Sun (Said to be named for droughts)
Old pronunciation of Lahaina.
Hono: Bay
There are six famous west Maui bays possessing names that begin with Hono. Combined they are known as Nā Honoapi’ilani, meaning the bays acquired by chief Pi’ilani. Honoapi’ilani is also the name of the west Maui highway that connects the six bays.
The six bays are: Honokōwai, Honokahua, Honolua, Honokōhau, Honokeana, & Hononana
Honokōwai: Bay drawing water
Honokahua: Sites bay
Honolua: Two bays or twin bays
The first voyage of the Hawaiian double hulled voyaging canoe began here on May 1, 1976.
Honokōhau: Bay drawing dew
Honokeana: The cave bay
Hononana: Animated bay
Olowalu:
Many hills
Many Hawaiians were killed or wounded here because of the battle with Captain Simon Metcalfe in 1790. This incident is said to be called the Olowalu massacre. The story begins that when Captain Simon Metcalfe anchored his ship, the Elinor, off shore (Honua’ula), some Hawaiians killed a watchman and stole one of his small boats. Metcalfe was angered by this, and fired several rounds of his cannon at the village, killing many people and wounding others. Unsatisfied with his counter attack, Metcalfe sailed towards Olowalu after learning that the boat thieves resided there. Upon his arrival, he encouraged the natives to approach his ship for trading. Once the canoes reached the ship, he and his crew opened fire with the ships guns. In this incident, over 80 Hawaiians were killed and many more were wounded. The chief of Olowalu was very enraged after hearing what happened. He retaliated by capturing one of Metcalfe’s ships and killed the entire crew except for one man. That man is presumed to have felt pretty lucky.
Launiupoko: Short coconut leaf
Kā’anapali: Cliff division
At Kā’anapali Beach there is a cinder cone called Pu’u Keka’a, commonly known as “Black Rock”, that divides the beach in two. The section between Hanakao’o Beach Park and Black Rock is known as “Dig Me Beach”. The other section is between Black Rock and Honokowai Point, and is known as “North Beach”.
Waine’e: Moving water
Kahana: Cutting or turning point
Pu’unoa: Hill freed of taboo
Mōpua: Melodious, pleasant, as of a voice, rare
(said to be the name of a legendary character)
Māhinahina: Silvery haze (as of moonlight) or pale moonlight
Kapunakea: The clear spring or white coral
Pu’ukoli’i: Koli’i shrub hill (Koli’i is a native lobelia shrub)
Māla: Garden
This is a wharf in Lahaina that was dedicated by Governor Wallace R. Farrington. It was built to help accommodate the inter-island steamers so they wouldn't have to anchor off shore. Unfortunately, because of strong currents and heavy surf damage in this location, they started anchoring off shore again. Until 1950, the warf was only used by small boats.
1 package of shredded cheese (depends on how much cheese you want on your pizza)
Pizza sauce (depends how much cheese you want on your pizza)
Dough:
1 package active dry yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
2/3 cups warm water
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons olive oil
Procedure:
Cut pineapple and ham into bite size pieces and preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Add yeast and sugar to the cup of warm water. Stir slightly and let sit for about 10 minutes. Mix 1 2/3 cups flour and salt, then add in the yeast mixture, and then add in the olive oil. Mix until the mixture can come into a ball.
Roll dough on a floured surface, making a circle. If dough is sticky, just add more flour. Roll dough into 15 inch flat circle. If dough does not want to roll, let stand and try again. Once dough is rolled put on a 15 inch non stick pan. If you do not have a non stick pan, use pam or oil, so it won't stick to the pan.
Once the dough is rolled and on the pan, add pizza sauce onto the dough. Add as much sauce as you want, for your tasting. Then add cheese onto the sauce, as much as you want for your tasting. Add the ham and pineapple, spreading it throughout the pizza.
Along the beaches and sand dunes, especially along the southern coasts of many islands, pohuehue flourishes. This vigorous, trailing beach morning glory can grow to 16 feet long. It grows above the high-water line and is able to absorb salty water and thrive. The sun does not shrivel its leathery, thick leaves, which are between two and four inches long.
There were at least three or four walled fishponds, loko kuapa, built along the Kihei coastline, the name of only one still remains. Ko'ie'ie Pond lies at Ka'ono'ulu Beach County Park along South Kihei Road between the Menehune Shores apartment building and the office of the Hawaiian Island Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. It is also known as Kalepolepo fishpond and is on both the National and State Registries of Historical Sites. According to one source, among the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Islands, Hawaiians were the only ones to develop a true aquaculture by using ponds to raise fish (as opposed to just trapping them with weirs).
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