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MLS: 346973 Pictures: 19 more. Price: $420,000 Fee Simple District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Napili Shores Unit: B-113 Baths: 1.00 Napili Shores is a lovely Ocean Front Resort situated right on Napili Bay, and has a feel of "OLD Hawaii". The property is lowrise with really nicely landscaped grounds, two pools and two restaurants. This is a ground floor Ocean View unit, interior is upgraded to the "A" standard required for the Outrigger Rental operation on site. Showings are subject to occupancy.

MLS: 343745 Pictures: 24 more. Price: $425,000 Fee Simple District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Napili Shores Unit: E-237 Beds: 1 Baths: 1.00 Napili Shores Resort is perfectly located oceanfront on the best upper Westside neighborhood beach, Napili Bay. Enjoy living in "HAWAIIAN TIME" as you snorkle and swim with turtles in this beautifully relaxed lowrise tropical setting. This 2nd floor one bedroom unit offers a serene garden setting situated above a Zen water garden, and has been completely remodeled to the highest "A" standards, just a short stroll to to the waters edge. Strong onsite vacation rental program.

MLS: 350149 Pictures: 24 more. Price: $449,000 Fee Simple District: Kaanapali Type: Condo Building: International Colony Club II Unit: 43 Beds: 2 Baths: 2.00 Charming, "Old Hawaii" free standing cottage with ocean view adjacent to the Kaanapali North Golf Course in a lowrise manicured tropical setting. Nestled in the Kaanapali area above the resort, walking distance to the North beach area, restaurants; Duke's etc. Special place for someone who wants to be in Kaanapali and close to all but still in a tranquil environment.

MLS: 348028 Pictures: 30 more. Price: $575,000 Leasehold District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Napili Point I Unit: B 12 Beds: 1 Baths: 1.00 Napili Point Resort is situated at one of the most lovely and dramatic ocean front locations on all of West Maui. You can snorkle with turtles, surf winter waves or just watch the Whales and sunsets with the neighbor islands of Lanai and Molokai as your back drop. This large ground floor 1bd/1ba unit is recently remodeled to the highest standards and curently in the onsite rental operation. Can be shown on short notice!

MLS: 349507 Pictures: 28 more. Price: $635,000 Fee Simple District: Napili/Kahana/Honokowai Type: Condo Building: Napili Point II Unit: B-32 Beds: 1 Baths: 1.00 Napili Point Resort is situated on a cove with one of the BEST OCEANFRONT LOCATIONS in all of West Maui! This large; FEE-SIMPLE, NEWLY REMODElLED groundfloor one bedroom unit has ocean views you only dream about! Watch sunsets with the islands of Lanai and Molokai as your backdrop from your own "Tiki Hut". Snorkle with turtles right outside your door and surf the winter waves. This location is just steps from the best beautiful whites sands beach of Napili Bay. Maintenace Fee includes electic and $116/month for reserve fund.

Natural History

Plumbago, Leadwort
(Plumbago capensis)

Pure, unadulterated blue is an uncommon flower color in the tropics, and blue-flowered plants imported from other places are treasured additions to island plantings.  A native of the Cape Province of South Africa that naturalized in Europe, plumbago is often a welcome addition in Hawaiian gardens because of its extraordinary profusion of delicate, sky-blue flowers that resemble phlox.  (There is also a white-flowering cultivar.) Interestingly, its curious names - plumbago and leadwort - come from an ancient European belief that the leaves cured lead poisoning.

By nature, it is a tough, woody-stemmed climbing shrub and tolerates both drought and poor soil. It does best at higher elevations. Thick hedges of plumbago mark the borders a number of upcountry properties. The shrubs flower throughout most of the year, and periodic heavy pruning triggers a fresh proliferation of its 1-/2 inch flowers. Heavy rainfall tends to beat down the flowers and leaves. The sepals under the petals of the flowers are characteristically sticky.

Besides the imported plumbago, there is a rare indigenous variety, P. zeylanica, whose sap was used to blacken tattoos. The plant grows in dry, coastal habitats and other low-lying areas.

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Arts & Culture

Pipi Tales

In 1793, when the first half-dozen or so California longhorns made it onto Hawaiian soil at Kealakekua on the Big Island, they were a marvel to the Hawaiian people.  The pipi, cattle, were the largest four-legged creatures they had ever seen.  (Before then, the heftiest quadruped in the islands was the pig.)  The creatures were a gift from the British explorer George Vancouver to King Kamehameha I and cemented their friendship. 

A decade later, horses joined the bovines and Hawaiians were awe-struck by these beautiful quadrupeds as well. 

According to some reports, the lone bull which made the long, exhausting sea voyage with Captain Vancouver died not long after landing, but one of the cows gave birth to a bull calf which became the progenitor of the Hawaiian herds.  The king imposed a ten-year kapu, making it a crime to kill or hurt the animals, at the captain's suggestion, and the herd grew.  As it grew, the animals spread throughout the kingdom. 

However, because of their protected status the herds quickly became a menace.  Before his death in 1819, the king ordered the construction of a stone wall to keep the animals out of villages and taro patches in Kona.  By then the animals were terrorizing the area's human population, ravaging vegetable gardens and planted fields, and stampeding through the villages, causing the people to run for their lives. 

The king had already lifted the kapu on killing the cattle around the turn of the century, and they were being hunted through the mountain forests for their meat, tallow, and hides.  Organized hunting parties of bullock hunters either trapped the animals in deep pits or stalked them safari-style.  (The animals were too wild to be driven to market alive.)  In their hunter camps, the hunters salted the meat, tanned the hides, and rendered tallow that was in high demand in Honolulu.

Around 1830, Kamehameha III invited three Mexican vaqueros to the Big Island to teach Hawaiians how to domesticate the wild cattle and the paniolo, the colorful Hawaiian cowboy, was born.  As cattle were domesticated and ranching became more widespread, new bloodlines were introduced to Hawaii.  The original longhorns were left to wander in the mountains as "scrub" cattle, while shorthorn Hereford, Angus and other breeds took over Hawaiian pastures. 

It was decades before beef from domestic cattle replaced meat harvested from the forest-dwelling wild cattle, however.  An 1848 estimate showed 35,000 head of cattle in the kingdom, of which 25,000 were still wild.  By the 1870's, when the ranching industry had reached its peak, the days of the bullock hunters were just about done.  According to tax assessments in 1879 there were about 79,350 domesticated cattle in Hawaii.  Just five years later, there were as many as 117,600.

Still, more than 150 years after the arrival of the first longhorns in Hawaii, descendants of the leggy, sharp-horned, ferocious "Old Vancouvers" still roamed the deep forests and remote mountains of Hawaii despite efforts by ranchers to hunt down the wild cattle to keep them from interbreeding with the tame herds. 

By the 1850s, Hawaiian beef and hides were already being shipped off to California, Alaska and other places.  In 1860, it was recorded that 250 barrels of beef were exported along with more than 577,000 pounds of hides.

Still, more than 150 years after the arrival of the first longhorns in Hawaii, descendants of the leggy, sharp-horned, ferocious "Old Vancouvers" still roamed the deep forests and remote mountains of Hawaii despite continuing efforts by ranchers to hunt down the wild cattle, the pipi 'ahiu, to keep them from interbreeding with the tame herds.

(In 1972, however, naturalist Arthur Halloran, a retired biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service wrote "The Hawaiian Longhorn Story," which argued for the preservation of the wild cattle as a unique bit of Hawaiian history.)

As sugar grew to become the dominant industry in Hawaii during the first half of the twentieth century, land that was once prime pasture land was planted in cane. Grazing was pushed further and further into the fringe areas that were unsuited to cane-growing for one reason or another. Cattle were also grazed in areas that were too distant for the transport of the favored crop harvests to processing plants or to market.

The larger ranches still shipped to Honolulu markets, but some smaller ranches were converted into adjuncts that served the sugar (and later the pineapple) plantations, raising draft animals for the fields and beef for the workers.

Cattle arrived on Maui within a dozen years of their introduction on the Big Island. It is said that cattle first grazed in the Kaupo area in the early 1800's. (Kaupo Ranch continues to supply meat to local markets today.)

In 1806, Amaso Delano, a traveler of the time, recorded the story of one young bull in Lahaina who had apparently been transported to Maui to propagate a new herd. Delano commented that the bull "appeared to have disposition to do all the mischief he could, so much so that he was a pretty unwelcome guest …." The young fellow apparently wrecked gardens and sugar cane fields by tearing them to pieces with his horns and digging them up with his feet. He ran around, frightening the natives and generally created havoc.  (Perhaps the young bull was just too rambunctious to remain on the Big Island.)

According to another source, government lands in Wailuku were being leased for pasture by 1845 and five years later there were an estimated 3,500 cattle on the island. From 1893 until 1927, close to 1,600 brands were registered on Maui, representing operations throughout the island. Ranch sizes ranged from a few acres to the 80,000-acre Ulupalakua Ranch.

The central part of the island was eventually given over to sugar cane and to urbanization and commercial centers, but cattle still grazed on the slopes of Haleakala and the hillsides of the West Maui Mountains until the latter part of the twentieth century.

By then, soaring land values, the population pressures of urbanization, high labor costs and competition from imported beef crippled the established ranches and they diversified into real estate, tourism and other profitable ventures, or they faded. Many of the smaller ranches no longer exist. The 16,000-acre Grove Ranch, which once stretched from Haiku to Makawao, was liquidated in the 1960's, but two other large operations - the Hana Ranch and Ka'onoulu Ranch are still operating.

Historically, the three major ranches in upcountry Maui were Ulupalakua Ranch, begun in 1856 by Captain James Makee as "Rose Ranch"; the Baldwin family's Haleakala Ranch, which was founded in Makawao in 1888; and Ka'ono'ulu Ranch, which was founded by Maui senator Harold Rice.

Of the three, Ka'ono'ulu Ranch, which ran from the dry lands of Kihei up through Kula in its heyday and at one time even included pastures in the West Maui Mountains, is no longer the household name it was in the 1920's when it had a popular meat market in Wailuku. The ranch included over 30,000 acres and carried a 4,400-head herd at one time. It was a conglomeration of five older ranches: Robinson Ranch, Enos Ranch, Frank Correa Ranch, Freitas Ranch and Cornwall Ranch.

In West Maui, the Honolua Ranch above Lahaina was founded in 1880 and over time production shifted in and out of pineapple, sugar and other crops. In the 1920's', it covered about 16,000 acres and carried 800 head of cattle.

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Hawaiiana

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Braddah-Nics Lexicon

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Local Grinds

Banana/Mango Cream Squares

Ingredients:

Crust:

• 2 Cups all purpose flour
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 Blocks butter (melted)

Filling:

• 6 Bananas
• 1 Mango
• 2 Boxes instant pudding
• 3 Cups cold milk
• 1 8oz bar cream cheese (soften)
• 1 8oz tub cool whip

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl mix together the flour, butter, and sugar until it forms to dough. Spread dough evenly on the bottom of a 13x9x2" pan and bake for 20-25 min. (do not over bake or crust will be hard). Set the crust aside and let cool.

Mix together vanilla pudding and milk. Then mix in softened cream cheese, mango, and one banana. Slice remaining bananas and lay on cooled crust. Pour pudding mixture over the sliced bananas. Spread cool whip over pudding mixture and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Tip:
For a cool treat on a hot day try putting banana/mango squares in the freezer a couple hours before serving.

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