My Kona Coffee Shack

A  L  O  H  A !

Back home in Waikiki, I get to

walk scenes like this every day.

The beach & sea are beyond

these trees & lawns at

Fort Derussy. Link

Our first Hawaii home was an actual

coffee shack in Captain Cook, Link

above Kealakekua Bay on the west side of Hawaii Island [the Big Island]. We would turn off

the belt highway, and climb

Rabbit Hill through the coffee trees

with four wheel drive.

Above the coffee farm, our

shack was built into the hillside on

poles. We hiked it's jungle path ever day.

I describe all this in my Hawaii Novella:

"Aloha Where You Like Go?"

Link

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500 Pound Sack of Kona Coffee

Historic Kealakekua, below our first Hawaii Home

Link

 “The Kona coffee, raised on the uplands of the Island of Hawaii is superior to any other coffee raised. I think that I can safely say this. The flavor is truly superb. One has never tasted coffee who has not drunk Kona coffee.”

Hon. Henry E. Cooper, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hawaiian Republic, 1896

Coffee Cherries - 

The green beans are inside!

First the white blossoms would bloom.

Then the cherry fruit would appear.

Then the family with their baskets

would pick the cherries as we drove

past, careful to raise no dust on

the lava and dirt road.

"donkey" by All Suggestions Welcome is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

In the early 1900s, donkeys were brought from Africa

to work these coffee farms of Kona on the Big Island.

Their braying became a familiar sound in the district, and they came to be called: "Kona Nightingales."

"A native of Hawai‘i Island, Dr. Bergin is passionate about preserving manageable herds of the Kona Nightingales here on the island. “They are part of our history and culture…literally part of the landscape of the Big Island. To lose them would be a huge loss,” he says." Link

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