Twilight at Kalahuipua’a 2019 Schedules Dates
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 largest fishpond adjacent to the ocean was once part of the Makaiwa Bay until ancient Hawaiians built a wall into the water to block off the ocean and create a pond complex for aqua culture. The ponds are now a part of the Mauna Lani resort where the owners continue to maintain and preserve them to benefit the schools of mullet, milk fish and moi that inhabit and thrive with few predators other than the barracuda that make their way into the ponds when very small. 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”.
Th...
