06-08-2012, 10:17 AM
I much appreciate hearing your first hand experience as a resident, dakine. [
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Even without knowing much about the culture of the Valley, one thing all should find obvious is that the folks down there live off the grid, and deal with difficult ingress and egress, and there are both benefits and hardships of that lifestyle -- so how disrespectful of people to come down and disrupt and treat the lifestyle and 'aina as if it exists to be toured.
It is not a playground back there.
The beach is public, like all beaches in Hawai'i.
The Z trail past the beach is public.
The Valley is private property, other than the stretch of County Road. There are no parks or public trails or other nature areas for tourism back there, but people act as if it is some sort of wilderness. It's a farming community!
]Even without knowing much about the culture of the Valley, one thing all should find obvious is that the folks down there live off the grid, and deal with difficult ingress and egress, and there are both benefits and hardships of that lifestyle -- so how disrespectful of people to come down and disrupt and treat the lifestyle and 'aina as if it exists to be toured.
It is not a playground back there.
The beach is public, like all beaches in Hawai'i.
The Z trail past the beach is public.
The Valley is private property, other than the stretch of County Road. There are no parks or public trails or other nature areas for tourism back there, but people act as if it is some sort of wilderness. It's a farming community!