 |
 |
 |
|||||
|
"Waipao":
“I’ve been told a few different translations for the name Waipao,” Nick Needle says. “One I’ve heard is ‘A place where the water bursts forth,’ and this is where you can really see that action and that vision occurring because of all the springs that we have here, all the water bubbling up. This spring here in particular is Kapuna. This is the spring that’s mentioned in old stories.We built this rock wall around it to sort of sanctify it. It’s not finished yet. 
"Another translation for the name Waipao is ‘the place where the water scoops,’ and I was told it refers to stories of Kāne and Kanaloa coming here to get water for ‘awa, scooping it up. Also, the people who used to live here way before us, this must’ve been a place where they would scoop water for drinking. And then the most recent translation I’ve heard was from Kihei Nahale-a who said Waipao may also translate to ‘the place where the water carves.’ “We had Tropical Storm Darby back in August. Prior to that, this little rock beach was not here, and you see how it carved out that side of the stream. That was one of our lo‘i right over there. It almost ate away that entire bank. So this is something that we’re dealing with here, Mother Nature. It’s an incredibly powerful and humbling event to see when this stream floods and charges off from a storm. “A lot of streams I’ve seen in Ko‘olaupoko and Ko‘olauloa are more wide and open, but Ha‘ikū stream, especially in this section called Waipao, has carved more of a small and narrow canyon. So maybe that’s what the name refers to as well." |
|
|||||
|
|||||
