11-11-2010, 04:44 AM
South Kopua Rd is the road that takes you down to Eden Roc. In the upper stretch it runs through old pasture land and former cane fields. I stopped to talk story with a fellow who is building a house there, and asked how he had installed the posts for his gate. With a manual post hole digger, he replied. Amazing. Several feet down with a glorified trowel, while I, a couple of miles further down, nearly knocked loose teeth the first time I tried to drive the point of an o'o into the ground. It penetrated maybe an inch and a tiny cloud of rock dust came up. My acquaintance laughed when he heard that and replied that my 1" of soil was probably healthier than his 5' of soil since it had not been farmed on an industrial scale to the point of death as his had.