Anybody watching the UFO on the North shore?

[SusieMisajon]

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[Ron Whitfield]

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MMM, good!

[SusieMisajon]

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(what are you doing up so late, anyways?)

[SusieMisajon]

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(an old post, copied from the AlohaLanai)(but get planny crabs there)


Down at the river that runs between Waialua and Haleiwa, where the big turnato cane trucks clank by on their way to the mill, smelling of burnt cane, just over where there's a two headed date palm (no joke)....go past the filipino cane workers, with their bandanas tied around their faces, holding big machetes in rough, gnarled hands....past the row of donkeys standing patiently in the hot sun with their packs of cane joints for replanting, swishing away the flies with their spindly tails, stretching their necks to try and reach down into their feedbags for that last morsel of grain...go down that way, barefeet getting dusty along the dirt road, take your old poi dog with you, him trotting around all over, muzzling in the grass after a mongoose, or in the cool of a ditch after a toad -hey, you, watch out for dem buffa toads- you going get sick!....Over by the bridge, lower your net down, slowly, so as not to scare them away, those crabs. Hope like hell that you've tied the aku head tightly enough so that the crabs, those smart buggers, won't run away with it, leaving you with nothing when you quickly, now... yank up the basket and pull, pull, quick! You get em?

[Ron Whitfield]

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That's my shortcut to Haleiwa town, but I havn't seen the 2 head palm, so I'll pay attention next time.

Sugar cane? No more, only in 5-0 re-runs.

[LikaNui]

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Susie, thank you for post #12 above -- that's one of the best posts I've ever read on HT!!!

[cyleet99]

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Susie, I really enjoyed reading your posts, too...My favorite was #19. I go over that stream all the time; it's the one that runs by the elementary school, right? I used to love to crab in Myrtle Beach (crabbed some in New Jersey, too.) Do they like rotten chicken necks?

BTW the camp at Mokuleia had an open house with a cookout this spring. Great beach, the reef is still there, and the kids had a great time kayaking in the little bay and crawling over the reef. Course the teenagers were busy pushing each other in from the end of the reef. Hot dogs and hamburgers were great!

I need to drive down the road toward the airfield and get some pictures for you. These are all I have for now, views from the mountain trail. Agent 99 signing off for now!

[craigwatanabe]

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I found one that big in my yard but it ain't the edible kind

[lavagal]

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Susie's #12 post was amazing. Thanks for that, Susie. I absolutely loved it.

Sometimes when I do my butt-crack-of-dawn walks I see clouds illuminate with some kind of glow, satellites wobbling across the starscape, shooting stars or space junk entering the atmosphere, giant military aircraft shining their spotlights onto the ground, and the ocasional squadron of fighters taking off for the mainland. The night time hours are always interesting to those of us who look up.

[craigwatanabe]

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and, at night, flourescent grains of sand.

That was glowing plankton. At Kahala Beach near the wall that separated the outflow from the canal on the hotel side, at night you could see those blue green glowing dots as they washed up on the shore.

[Ron Whitfield]

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Whatever the action was the other night, they're at it again tonite.
Just saw a deffinite amber explosion just a few miles out.

[SusieMisajon]

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That's my shortcut to Haleiwa town, but I havn't seen the 2 head palm, so I'll pay attention next time.

Sugar cane? No more, only in 5-0 re-runs.

When you do find it (just down fom the bridge, if I remember correctly), I expect pictures...of that, and everything else I've written about...please.

[SusieMisajon]

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Susie, thank you for post #12 above -- that's one of the best posts I've ever read on HT!!!

If I just close my eyes a bit, I'm right there, too.

[SusieMisajon]

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Susie, I really enjoyed reading your posts, too...My favorite was #19. I go over that stream all the time; it's the one that runs by the elementary school, right? I used to love to crab in Myrtle Beach (crabbed some in New Jersey, too.) Do they like rotten chicken necks?

BTW the camp at Mokuleia had an open house with a cookout this spring. Great beach, the reef is still there, and the kids had a great time kayaking in the little bay and crawling over the reef. Course the teenagers were busy pushing each other in from the end of the reef. Hot dogs and hamburgers were great!

I need to drive down the road toward the airfield and get some pictures for you. These are all I have for now, views from the mountain trail. Agent 99 signing off for now!

Yeah, it is the stream that's down a bit further from the elementary school, but my memory gets a bit fuzzy after that as to any more details...except for those little crabs sure can pinch fingers! I imagine that the crabs would like chicken necks as well as the akuheads we used back then. Have you seen the double-headed palm?....it's on the Waialua side, makai of the bridge, if I remember.

I'm happy to hear that the church camp still exists, and that the beach hasn't all washed away. I wonder if the little temple, next to an ironwood tree, in the empty lot (right accross from the entrance to the airfiled) is still there? I really would appreciate any pictures of what I remember, if anyone happens to find what I've written about...I LOVE the internet, don't you?

When I was a kid, one of the summer residents along the beach had built a floating platform out of oildrums and planks, chained to a cement anchor somewhat out in the water. We'd spend hours swimming to it and diving off it, or rolling in the washing machine of the waves on shore.

Or riding the horses along the beach. One mare, Nanda, would go into the water and get about chest-deep and then roll in the water. Another little sweet horse, Koleho, didn't know much about how a beach worked, and, the first time out, kept weaving along the beach following the wave motion...the my mom came gallping up behind me and he spooked and jumped right out into the water in one great leap...I don't know who was more surprised, me to find myself almost under water, or Koleho. My Mom was on her horse, screaming with laughter, and Koleho did amazing bounds to try to get back to shore without touching the water. I managed to stay on, but just barely.

Are the pictures that you posted taken from the road that goes up to the observatory? I'm trying to remember just where that road begins at the bottom...it's a nice walk with a great view just to go a little ways up that road. Whenever one of the horses would die of colic or something, Gordon Cran from Dillingham Ranch would come and take away the body and dump it off the edge of the road up there...and then we kids would go back a year or so later and see what was left after the red ants had finished with it (damn, those buggers can bite!), and we'd bring back the skull to decorate the garden. My Mom hated seeing the row of horse skulls with big eye sockets, glowing in the moonlight.

My Dad once took my brother and his scout troop up to the top of Mt. Kaala...but they used the road just to come down...they climbed up along one of the ridges! I think it used to be marked as a trail by the hiking society, years ago, but probably has been taken down as an official hike because of the dangers of that particular trail. I can't say if it was the right hand ridge or the left, for those of you brave (or foolhardy) enough to have a go.

I didn't get to go on that hike cause I wasn't a boy. How unfair is that?!

[cyleet99]

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The pics are from the trail up the mountainside, still in use and quite beautiful! There's a picnic table on top where the trail changes to go along the top (I think it's a four-wheel-drive jeep trail up there.)
More pics....my son and DH are the hardy travelers The photographer was slower and did slip once on the way back down...gotta be careful on those rocks!