Kelly: EVER WONDER HOW A
HAWAI'I STREET GOT ITS NAME IN
EVERY THURSDAY WE HAVE OUR ALOHA
AUTHENTIC SEGMENT TO BRING
AWARENESS TO HAWAI'I ACCULTURE.
HERE IS PILL PIRL KAMAKA PILI KAMAKA PILI.
ALOHA.
IT'S KAMAKA PILI.
BEHIND ME IS AN AREA WE ALL KNOW
IS WAIKIKI.
KNOWN AS THE ALA WAI BOULEVARD.
FAMED AFTER THE ALA WAI CANAL.
TO REMOVED A A LOT LOT OF THE
UNSANITARY WATER HERE.
NOW, ALA WAI REFERS TO PATH OF
THE FRESH WATER.
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE
ALA WAI, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A
CANOE PADDLER, LAST THING YOU
WANTED TO DO IS FLIP IN THIS
WATER.
AT ONE POINT IN HISTORY WE HAVE
THREE PROMINENT STREAMS THAT
FLOWED DOWN TO THE SHORES OF
WAIKIKI.
UNFORTUNATELY WITH THE CREATION
OF THIS ALA WAI, IT REMOVED
THOSE STREAMS.
IT CHANGES THE ECOLOGY OF THIS
PLACE.
DID YOU KNOW?
NOW YOU DO.
Kelly: AND JOINING US WITH
MORE ON ALA WAI BOULEVARD IS
KAMAKA PILI.
WHERE WERE THOSE STREAMS?
IF WE WALK ALONG THE SHORES
OF WAIKIKI, THERE'S THE FIRST
STREAM WE TALKED ABOUT, IF WE'RE
ON THE ZOO SIDE, THERE'S AN
AREA, KAPAHULU.
IF YOU KNOW WHERE THE PRINCE
KUHIO STATUE IS LOCATED, THAT IS
THE RIVER MOUTH.
APUAKEHAU, RIVER MOUTH WAS
LOCATED WHERE ROYAL HAWAIIAN
HOTEL IS SITUATED TODAY.
AND THE THIRD STREAM, USED TO
COME OUT WHERE THE HOTEL ILIKAI
IS TODAY.
Kristine: JU DOWN -- JUST DOWN
THE ROAD.
BIG STREELS? STREAMS?
LITTLE STREAMS?
THEY WERE PROMINENT.
Kelly: WHEN THEY REMOVED
IT, HOW DID IT CHANGE WAIKIKI?
IT CHANGED THE TOPOGRAPHY, A
STRUCTURE OF THE OCEAN FLOOR.
AND WHAT THE OCEAN FLOOR DOES TO
THE TOP OF THE OCEAN IS WHAT
HAPPENED UNDERNEATH THE OCEAN
RESULTS IN THE TOP.
BY REMOVING THOSE STREAMS AND
CHANGING IT, IT REMOVED A LOT OF
THE WAVES AND SHORE BREAKS.
SO THERE'S ONE THING CALLED
BLUEBIRDS.
THEY WERE KNOWN TO BE 25 OR
30-FOOT WAVES THAT BROKE THERE.
EVEN THINKING ABOUT THAT 25 TO
30-FOOT WAVES GOING BY THE
AMERICAN SCALE.
IN THE HAWAIIAN PERSPECTIVE, WE
JUDGE IT BY THE BACK OF THE
WAVE.
IN GENERAL IT'S ABOUT DOUBLE THE
SIZE OF THE AMERICAN SCALE.
50 TO 60-FOOT WAVES.
DUKE KAHANAMOKU WHO IS KNOWN IN
HISTORY TO CATCH A ONE MILE LONG
WAVE, A BLUE BIRD FROM OUTSIDE
DIAMOND HEAD TO THE SHORE OF
WAIKIKI.
IT'S INCREDIBLE TO THINK ABOUT
WHAT HAD HAPPY PLACE.
Kelly: ARE THERE ANY HIDDEN
GEMS ABOUT CHANGES IN WAIKIKI?
TALKING TO KUPUNA, THEY SAY
BEFORE GETTING INTO WAIKIKI THEY
WOULD WALK INTO A CLOUD OF LIMU.
WHICH KNOW WE DON'T GET TO SEE.
WAIKIKI WAS KNOWN FOR THE LIMU
THAT GREW THERE.
THERE'S MANY REASONS IT'S NOT
THERE ANYMORE.
ONE, THE AMOUNT OF SUNSCREEN
THAT ENTERS THE OCEAN.
SUNSCREEN BLOCKS THE OXYGEN FROM
GETTING INTO THE OCEAN.
AND NOT ALLOWING THE SEAWEED TO
PUSH.
ANOTHER THING IS OUR KUPUNA
WENT, THINKING ABOUT FUTURE
GENERATIONS THEY PICKED THE
SEAWEED.
IN MODERN DAYS, A LOT OF PEOPLE
PULLED SYSTEM OUT INCLUDING THE
ROOT.
THAT RESULTS IN NO MORE SEAWEED.
Kelly: THANK YOU FOR
JOINING US.
AND THERE IS SO MUCH MORE TO