Tag Archives: Hawi

Wearing out your welcome

A welcome mat in front of a store in Hawi in Hawaii

A store in Hawi might be needing a new mat.

The Numbers Game #32

Two stores in Hawi not working out as neighbors (original story here).

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 153. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A junction near Kawaihae. Original story here.

The Numbers Game #31

A pueo snags a meal. A favorite encounter of mine, the original post ran here.

The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 152. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A sign of the times

I saw this sign in Hawi. It’s on a side road leading to a local housing scheme. It won’t be seen by most people passing through the town, but reflects a degree of unease or unhappiness with how things are going in Hawaii, with housing issues being near the top of the list.

Palm fronds in a gully

Wet palm fronds in a gulley in Hawi, Hawaii

Entering beautiful downtown Hawi (all one block of it) there’s a gully to one side of the road. It’s a steep drop into it, but there’s lots of vegetation to break one’s fall and to cover up the odds and ends dumped there. We get a lot of rain up here, so the vegetation thrives including this palm, all shiny and drooping from the last downpour.

The light fantastic

While I was waiting to pick up pizza, I was attracted, moth-like, to the lights illuminating the outdoor seating area. So I climbed up on a wall and got some eye-level photos being careful, as one does, not to disturb the two armed officers sitting at the counter.

Colorful cacti

I saw these cheerful cacti burgeoning in downtown Hawi recently.

Posted for Becky’s Squares: Move Forward, Reconstruct, Renew, and/or are Burgeoning. See more responses here.

Potholes

Earlier this month, Brian posted photos of his road being regraded (here). It made me think I should do a post on the renewal of the main road to this part of the island, and here it is.

When I first moved here, the county had just finished a major resurfacing of this highway, a project which stopped about seven miles short of Hawi. For the past 11 years, those last seven miles have been patched and repatched. Every few months, a small crew in a truck parks by the side of the road, shovels asphalt into the holes, and tamps it down. A lot of semi-trucks and heavy equipment use the highway, so the repairs don’t last long. I’ve seen chunks missing from new patches within 24 hours.

It wouldn’t be so bad, but these days I drive a little Nissan hatchback and, when I hit one of these potholes, the car shudders like I would if I’d just been punched in the face by Mike Tyson. I’m just hoping proper repairs happen before my little car goes down for the count.