Twilight at Kalahuipua’a-July 2017
One of our favorite activities near the monthly full moon is to attend “Talk Story” or as it’s formally known-“Twilight at Kalahuipua’a”. The site of this no charge, almost monthly event is the Eva Parker Woods Cottage located ocean front on an island of grass between Makaiwa Bay and the historic Kalahuipua’a fishponds. The fishponds were once part of the Makaiwa Bay until ancient Hawaiians built walls into the water to create multiple large ponds for aqua culture. The ponds are now a part of the Mauna Lani resort where the owners continue their maintenance and preservation all to benefit the schools of mullet, milk fish and moi that inhabit and thrive with few predators. Kalahuipua’a is translated to mean “the gathering of the pigs”. Since Hawaiians often expressed themselves allegorically it is speculated they were referring to the large fish in the fishponds as being the “pigs”.
The scene is amazingly beautiful as the crowd gathers at sunset for what is usually a concert by a well known island mu...
