12-29-2013, 08:18 AM
We aren't friends or anything, but the very friendly guides at Na'alapa Stables have a strong Waipi'o Valley connection. It's a husband and wife team. I can't recall his name, but I think hers might be Mahina. Reachable through the contact information on their website I'm sure. He is very funny and charming and she is sweet and lovely. Her grandmother lives there and she spent her youth down there but moved atop for her children.
It's Edenic down there (if Eden had mosquitoes and nippy wild horses and people with clothes on), but too remote and sparsely populated for me. When I was last at the overlook I got to talking from a guy from Ohio who was staying in Kohala. He couldn't figure out why they didn't run utilities down there and build some condos, to achieve the highest and best use of the land.
It's Edenic down there (if Eden had mosquitoes and nippy wild horses and people with clothes on), but too remote and sparsely populated for me. When I was last at the overlook I got to talking from a guy from Ohio who was staying in Kohala. He couldn't figure out why they didn't run utilities down there and build some condos, to achieve the highest and best use of the land.