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My guy sent a cryptic e-mail the night before our planned trip — “like to met by 06:30 Thursday at Puu Hinahina Overlook.”

If the island were barren, if it had no majestic koa trees or coconut palms or fern forests, no hibiscus, begonia, bougainvillaea, poinsettia, u'ulei, mamane or hinahina blossoms, it would be worth visiting for Haleakala alone.

Hui pu me ka wai ula iliahi, Mohala ta pua i ke one o Pawene; 10Ka lawe a ke Koolau Noho pu me ka ua punonohu ula i ka nahele, Ike i ka wai kea o Makaweli; Page 111 Ua noho pu i ka nahele Me ka lei hinahina o Maka-li'i. 15Liilii ka uka o Koae'a; Nana i ka ua lani-pili, Ka �-�, manu le'a o ka nahele.

Partnered is she to the swirling river; They plant with flowers the sandy lea, 10While the bearded surf, tossed by the breeze, Vaunts on the hills as the sun-bow, Looks on the crystal stream Makaweli, And in the wildwood makes her abode With Hinahina of silvern wreaths. 15Koaea's a speck to the eye, Under the low-hanging rain-cloud, Woodland home of the plaintive �-�.

As soon as the young women had got out of sight he hastened to Waialua and arrayed himself in the rough and shaggy wreaths of uki from the lagoons of Ukoa and of hinahina from Kealia.