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---Hukilau Beach---
Hukilau Beach sign
Hukilau beach is a fun beach with good swimming and lots to explore. If you feel adventurous you can walk north to Malaekahana beach and wade through the channel to Goat Island when the tide is low. If you walk to the south, you will find Bathtub beach, a reef protected stretch of shoreline that forms pools of water on the beach. The Park behind the beach is a popular picnic spot on weekends.
The plaque at the Hukilau beach sign says:
Welcome to Historic Hukilau Beach
Huki – “to pull”
Lau “fish net with ti leaf”
From 1948 to 1971, this site was a popular attraction. Tourists could participate in the hukilau, eat at a luau, buy handmade arts and crafts, and watch the dances of Polynesia. These events led to the creation of the world famous "hukilau" song by Jack Owens.
The hukilau was conceived as a fundraising venture by local members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), to help build a chapel in this community. This chapel still stands today as a tribute to the past and present residents of Laie.
Beach View
You DO NOT have to step onto the beach to find the cache but check it out anyway.
~~~For the puzzle, help me out here, I kinda forgot the lyrics?~~~
Cache is at:
Oh we're going a hukilau
A huk huki huki huki hukilau
Everybody loves the huki
Where the laulau is the kaukau
We thro our nets out into the sea
And amaama come a swimming to me
Oh, we're going hukilau
A huki huki huk hukilau
Wha beautiful day fishing
Hawaiian way
Here the hukilau are swishing
Down in old Laie bay
A huk huk huk huk huklau
Everybody loves the hukilau
The laulau the kaukau at the luau
We throw our nets out into the sea
And al the amaama come a swimming to me
Oh, we're going to a hukilau
A huki huki huki huki
(By Jack Owens, 1948)
Sorry if the song gets stuck in your head... nah not really! ;)
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