Kapolei Middle & High School - Hawaiian Studies Site Tour

On December 7, 2015 Kapolei Middle and High School students from Kumu Hula and teacher Mikiala Lidstone’s Hawaiian Studies Class visited the Kalaeloa Heritage Park. KHLF Director and docent Shad Kane shared with them the history of the closure of the Barbers Point Naval Air Station and the cultural history of the park. They were given a site tour of a complex of cultural structures that include house sites, agricultural, water and burial sinkhole features. Perhaps one of the interesting features was the Kualaka’i Trail that once extended from the shoreline community of Kualaka’i for 4 miles to Palehua and West Loch known anciently as Kaihuopala’ai. It is an ancient trail paved in coral with upright stones every 8 to 10 feet. Although the trail at one time extended a distance today all that is left is approximately 300 yards within the park. At the end of the day the students extended their appreciation in the performance of several hula as makana.