When I was a kid living about 130 yards from where this cache is, we knew this area as the gulch and was left undeveloped because it was needed as a watershed area. It later became the Mau'umae Nature Park. Kakuhihewa, the famous chief of O'ahu is said to have retired and later died here and Hawaiian legend has it that the gods Kane and Kaneloa wrestled and trampled down the grass here until it wilted, thus Mau'umae gets its name "wilted grass". Non-native flora there include haole koa, kiawe (mesquite) and kolu, which was once used to manufacture glue while native flora here include Pohinahina, Koali'awa (the Hawaiian Morning Glory", 'a'ali'i, and 'ili'ahi (Sandalwood). There are at least 7 or 8 sandalwood (santalum freycinetianum) trees growing in this park. They are easily spotted because of their light green leaves which are highlighted over the browns and dark greens of the other plants. Sandalwood forests once covered the islands until they were stripped off for the fragrant wood the Chinese valued in the early 1800s. PHOTO HINT