Hey Aloha,
Now I had planned for this trip to be a chance to do a little gifting, but in many ways I also had intended for this to be reconnaissance more than anything–gift a little bit, & see what to do when I come back in the future–that was the basic plan.
[…and the moral of the story is, never forget your hat when you go Kona-side…]
[I know that oftentimes I kill a thread, so if anybody wants to comment, please. it is welcome. feel free to jump in with anything…]
OK, so I’ll write out this whole report and then all of the illustrative photos will be below.
The genesis of this was that the Taiko group I am a member of was performing at a wedding over at the Hilton Waikoloa. As I researched the Hilton Waikoloa I found a very special target there. I decided to carpool with some friends from the group. They are both ladies about 60, both originally from Honolulu & both moved to Hilo about 30 years ago or more.
We left in the morning Saturday August 20. We drove across Saddle Road.
As we were going over Saddle Road I saw what looked to be a sylph hovering over the southern slope of Mauna Kea. Not a fancy-schmancy one, but maybe one nonetheless. I pointed it out to my friends and explained to them what a sylph was. Threw out the first tb as we got close, and then another as we passed the military base which had a death tower.
I was expecting there to be at least a few towers on Saddle Road, but there was just one at the military base a few miles before the turnoff to go to the Mauna Kea observatory. So we gifted that tower.
As we got into Waikoloa there was a tower at the Waikoloa Stables so that got a towerbuster.
We got to the Hilton quite early. The resort is built around a natural lagoon. I threw 3 tbs into various spots there. When I tossed in the first one, fish swam right over to it as it touched down.
The Hilton there has a sort of pan-Asian theme. All around the grounds are statues from Hindu mythology, statues of Buddhas, etc. Inside I noticed some Chinese-looking statues of Confucius. There are some photos below of just a couple of them. There were at least 30 I saw, and many more I didn’t see.
Next, with one of my friends we went over to the primary target of the trip: captive dolphins.
Of course they were really cool. First I tossed in a special towerbuster I had made for them with some different crystals. The dolphin who was zipping around the area went right down and looked at if for a moment, & then kept motoring around.
There was a guy standing right by me when I tossed it, he said, “did that just fall from the tree?” I answered, “Yeah. I think so.” “I wonder what it was, that’s really weird.” “I know, huh?!” I replied.
Then I went over to another part of the enclosure and tossed a second one into the water. Another dolphin, with a bunch of sunscreen around the blowhole swam by it and noticed it’s appearance briefly.
After that I walked over and tossed another tb into the ocean on the other side of the dolphin area. Walking back I noticed a mother with a little calf swimming around. Amazing how the calf was swimming so close that they were always touching, but staying right together.
While gifting the dolphin enclosure, which had a lot of people around, I used a technique that I did not originate: the Cloaking Device. It is based upon the Romulan & Klingon cloaking device from Star Trek. You just envision that yourself or your actions are briefly obscured from anyone around you. You can say something to yourself funny like, “Engage Cloaking Device.”
My friend knew that I was going to toss one, and she saw me do it, from a few feet away. But the guy standing next to me didn’t see me drop the tb in…
So then we performed at the wedding reception. Everyone said really beautiful things, the parents, the maid of honor (bride’s sister), the best man–they all spoke very wonderful words of positivity and love.
When getting ready for the bouquet toss, a group of ladies congregated. One of them started to pantomime stretching and calisthenics and warming up. It was really hilarious. She did in fact catch the bouquet.
Then the groom of course threw the garter. I caught it. In Hawaii they put money in the garter, & there was 40 bucks in there. I think that I’ll keep it for good luck in the little pouch tied to the garter until I get married, & then give the same money away to the next guy. A friend told me that sometimes it’s 50 or even 100 bucks with it.
Why is it that there can be like 20 single guys at a wedding, but only 4 or 5 will have the nerve to go and partake in that ritual?? It’s foolish for a grown man to be ashamed to go and do something as simple as try to catch the garter. Why be afraid of helping out your friend at a wedding??? If there are any young men reading this, go out to catch the garter at a wedding! It is not a big deal! There is nothing to be afraid of! Be a man, don’t be a scaredy-cat!
After the wedding we went over to one of the nearby malls, the Kings’ Shops and walked around a bit. My friends kind of shopped around. I had just wanted to stop there for a second and toss a tb in the pond, but they wanted to walk and look around, so that was OK. The mall is flanked on one side by a huge artificial pond. I threw a couple tbs into it.
Waikoloa is not really a town, in my opinion. It seems to me to be purely a tourist construct. There are resorts, there are malls, there is golf, there are condos–but there are no schools, churches, or government buildings. It is not a real town like Kailua is. I mean, sure, Kailua is tourist-y, but it IS a city, that was there before, and wasn’t build on the desert out in the middle of nowhere.
…but I digress…
After we checked that out, we went back to the condo we rented for the night. We stayed at the Paniolo Greens, and between the 3 of us it was just about 40 a night, so not too bad. We cleaned up and rested a bit. After a few hours we went to the other mall to eat, the Queens’ Marketplace. There is a sushi resteraunt there that is supposed to be really ono. [It is called Sansei.] We looked at the menu & saw that from 10pm-1am they had sushi half price. We went and ate a brief sup. Then walked around and killed time for almost 3 hours till when we could get the half price sushi. There was a small koi pond there at the marketplace with some really beautiful koi, & I threw a tb in there for them.
Finally went back to Sansei & had sushi. It was really good. I have been wanting sushi all year, especially since May, so it was good to finally have some, especially at half price.
So if you ever go to Waikoloa, remember, Fri & Sat 10-1 half price sushi. Later someone told us that they have the same special on Sundays from 5-530, & that the order had to be placed by 530, so to make a reservation for 445.
Sunday morning, August 21 I buried a tb at the condo.
Before we left the hotel, I was reading in the tourist magazine. I found something interesting. Keep this in mind for later.
Most ancient legends speak of sharks, but some describe behavior that is more dolphin-like, leading scholors such as Serge Kahili King, Ph.D., a Hawaiian-trained shaman, to believe that these tales were really about dolphins, such as the story surrounding the “Bump of 'Ina.” The Polynesian goddess 'Ina was said to have cracked open a coconut on a shark’s forehead. This is why, in the words of Johannes C. Andersen in Myths and Legends of the Polynesians , a protuberance on the forehead of sharks became known as the “bump of 'Ina.”
Yet sharks do not have bumps on their foreheads, but dolphins do. So this may actually be an ancient dolphin story, hidden by incorrect translation of the word mano, originally a generic Hawaiian term that included both sharks and dolphins, according to Kin. [“Wild Encounters” by Roger Harris. Big Island Traveler May-August 2011 page 92-93.]
I have never been to Waikoloa before, so before we went home my friends took me to some places.
First we went to Hapuna Beach, voted the #1 beach on the Big Island. The sand is very fine and the water is pristine and warm. I swam out a ways and dropped a tb down. The water was warm and great. We left another tb in the water at another spot there before we left.
Right up the road form there is the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel. This is private, gated, exclusive-kine stuff. The sister at the guard shack asked if we were there for the brunch, we said no we were there for the beach. She said that the beach was full and that they only allow 40 cars in at a time. I asked if we could just drive thru, she said, no, don’t allow that. My friends said that it was my first time there, can they just show me the hotel. She said yes, they’ll help you at the lobby. Maybe she was helpful because my friends are obviously local, unlike me–f.o.b… We drove by the lot for the beach and even that had gates and card readers…and plenty of empty parking spots…We circled the lobby drive and went back. I hopped out long enough to toss a tb in the water we could see from the road there by the paradiso golf course. Then we cruised on.
Even though it was just one tb, spit in the ocean as it were, I’m glad we stopped in there. My friends said that the Rockefellers built the hotel, and that it was very exclusive at one point, and that now it is owned by a Japanese company.
I wonder if the whole “the beach is full” 40 cars shtick is not a way to get around the law. There are signs in hawaii pointing to shoreline–public access. In Hawaii there is supposed to be no such thing as a private beach. Beaches are for everyone. They can put up a ton of No Trespassing signs, but if you can see the water, you are allowed to cross the property to get to it. I said to my friends, I wonder if you park on the highway and try to walk there if they would allow it. I dn’t think they could stop you legally. If you get there early enough I guess you can be one of the “40 cars”. Also if we had just said, “yes, for the brunch” she might have given us a key-card and a parking pass.
From there we went to a very special place and experience. they had not been there for a long time, since before it was a National Historic Site. We went to the Pu’ukohala Heiau, the Temple on the Hill of the Whale.
this heiau was build by King Kamehameha in 1790-91. A prophet fortold that if he built a large heiau atop whale hill, dedicated to his family war god Ku, he would conquer all of the islands of Hawaii.
Thousands of men worked for nearly a year, Kamehameha with them. They buildt the heiau from water-worn lava rocks. Workers formed a human chain 20 miles long and passed the rocks hand-to-hand.
In 1791 it was finished, & when Kamehameha’s cousin Keoua Kuahu’ula came to the heiau he was killed, his body carried to the temple as the principle sacrifice to Ku.
On the hillside between Pu’ukohala Heiau and the sea are the ruins of the Mailekini Heiau, which was used by the ancestors of Kamehameha.
Just offshore, submerged underwater, is the Hale O kapuni Heiau. This heiau was dedicated to the shark gods, and was last able to be seen in the 1950s when the rack platform was visible at low tides. the Stone Leaning Post overlooks the site of the Shark Temple.
The water there was really dirty, filled with silt and sediment. Looked pretty brown.
I started by gifting some tbs to the heiau. I gave some to both of the heiaus. Then I went over to the Stone Leaning Post and gifted a towerbuster there. then I walked to the edge and threw a tb into the water, not yet knowing that the Shark Temple was below the Stone Leaning Post. I noticed a plastic water bottle on the rocks, so I climbed down to retrieve this piece of rubbish. As I was walking back to the path my friends caught up with me on the path and exclaimed loudly & excitedly,
“Jack!! Look!!!”
I spun around to see a Spinner Dolphin jump out of the water twice & spin in the air each time! The dolphin submerged and we did not see it again. I told them, “see, special things can happen when you are gifting.”
We walked over to Spencer Park & I gifted a towerbuster into the water there.
Then we walked up to the visitors center and went into the bookstore this time. The bookstore had 3 really large original paintings by Herb Kane that were commissioned for the park in 1976. I had never seen Herb Kane originals before, so that was very cool.
We talked to the rangers a bit. The park information mentioned that Black-Tipped Reef Sharks frequent the waters near the shark temple year round. One of my friends asked the ranger if they ever see dolphins in the bay. he said no, they never see any dolphins in the bay, but they see Black-tipped Sharks there often and they always keep track of their numbers.
We talked a bit and he had actually seen me the night before while we were waiting for sushi.
then we went over to Waimea. there is a dry side and a wet side, and the contrast is intense, and the line seperating the two very sharp.
As we came into Waimea there was a tower we gifted. We were hungry so stopped at Parker Ranch Center for lunch. Ran into a couple other drummers and their parents there. Ate food and the ladies shopped some more, or as one of the young drummers fathers noted as I sat on a bench outside with him, “Look at everything. Touch everything. Buy nothing.” the mist as we sat there was amazing.
Driving to the Center I spotted another tower about a mile away. After we ate we drover there, only to see that there were actually 3 towers together. Gifted 2 tbs to that array. Then back onto Mamalahoa Hwy and continued.
In town there were two more HAARP towers. The first throw I missed the bush I was aiming for as we drove. That tb will probably be picked up and thrown in the trash. But I threw out a second one and that sailed home. That tb should be good enough for both of those towers.
About 15 miles outside of town we passed a rural tower, this received a tb as well.
And then on the way down to Hilo there is a turnoff from mamalahoa hwy that takes you down to Honokaa. There was a tower at the turnoff we gifted as well.
My friends peppered me off and on with questions about orgonite, especially after the wild dolphin sighting. What’s it made of? What kind of crystal? Etc. I answered them all as best as I could. they asked me, “how did you start doing this?” I said, “Well, I learned about it a few years ago–it sounded really cool and exciting. The people said that when you do it you will see amazing things happen. they say if you try it and don’t see confirmation, or you don’t see fantastic things, don’t bother doing it. I tried it, & I saw amazing things happen. And you two both saw something amazing happen today. That’s the universe showing us that it’s for real…”
We finally got home. I neglected to give each of my friends a tb, but I’ll give them one later.
So I want to point out to folks reading this who want to start gifting that it doesn’t take a lot of orgonite to have some cool experiences. sometimes a little can go a long way. I did this whole trip on one gallon of resin, and even had plenty of orgonite left over. which is good because I still have plenty more gifting to do close to home, in and around Hilo.
