06-21-2016, 05:04 AM
Malihini do know Hawaii island is known for how much smuggling goes on (since they are the ones doing it). How quickly everybody forgets the axis deer smuggling that was going on. It seemed getting them on a sailboat would be the stealthiest way to conduct deliberate smuggling. No, they went over the top and used helicopters. Look to the origin of that and it was well-heeled Maui hunters that wanted more diverse hunting options for their hunting stay-cations on Hawaii island. That was a Puna area thing.
This smuggling is wide spread. You would think the axis deer smuggling was almost a ridiculous comic book story and it is tame to other things going on. There is no doubt the coffee borer beetle was brought in on smuggled African arabica coffee plants. Somebody felt the approved varieties was too limiting.
The rapid ohia death started in Puna, and not only Puna, but in a several block radius of Pohoiki. Ceratocystis fimbriata is killing eucalyptus in Australia. It can be carried by bark boring beetles. Somebody smuggling something in from Australia and living in the middle of the initial Pohoiki outbreak would explain things.
Coqui frogs began in Puna, fire ants began in Puna, poison African snails began in Puna, axis deer almost began in Puna, rapid ohia death began in Puna. All these invasives are from malahini that "love" this place, to death.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
This smuggling is wide spread. You would think the axis deer smuggling was almost a ridiculous comic book story and it is tame to other things going on. There is no doubt the coffee borer beetle was brought in on smuggled African arabica coffee plants. Somebody felt the approved varieties was too limiting.
The rapid ohia death started in Puna, and not only Puna, but in a several block radius of Pohoiki. Ceratocystis fimbriata is killing eucalyptus in Australia. It can be carried by bark boring beetles. Somebody smuggling something in from Australia and living in the middle of the initial Pohoiki outbreak would explain things.
Coqui frogs began in Puna, fire ants began in Puna, poison African snails began in Puna, axis deer almost began in Puna, rapid ohia death began in Puna. All these invasives are from malahini that "love" this place, to death.
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*