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Article: Hawaii'sBack Yard
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- Honolulu Star - Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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COURTESY OF HINA ADVENTURES, INC.
Na Pohaku o Hauwahine, along Kawainui Marsh, is one of the sites visited on the Storytelling, Legends & Sacred Sites of Windward Oahu tour.
Nature was Ena Sroat's playground when she was growing up in Kaneohe as a fourth-generation kamaaina.
"I was always exploring the streams, mountains and cultural sites on the Windward side of Oahu," she said. "My parents are avid hikers, and they would take my brother and me on fabulous treks into the valleys and up into the Koolau range."
One of the family's favorite escapes was a trail that meandered through the foothills to a large mango grove.
"I instinctively knew that it was a special place, and I felt at ...