The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-04-03

equalled scenic beauty. This road also
is private plantation road, the prop
erty of Hawaiian Sugar Company
and built when Olokele irrigation ditch
was constructed through the mountains
of this wonderful canyon. This road is
in remarkably fine condition. A half
mile or so below the spillway from 0lo.
kele ditch, where the excess water
dropping over the canyon side makes
an unequalled waterfall, the road ends.
The pilot ear party passed along the
trail, stopped at the ditehman' g hut for
a photograph and then built a tempo.
rary road over ditch and drove care
fully forward over the trail on the edge
of the canyon to the spillway. Here
the front wheels were moved into the
whirling stream, "the farthest up"
point for automobile travel. Beyond
this point the members of the party
walked for a mile and found a horse
trail that would require very little work
to make ii into an unsurpassed motor
road. '&hEE.".E rs .,... I'll. 4
The Advertiser Pilot Car left Nawili
will at eight O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing for the trip TO Waimea. Tuesday,
the day that party landed at Ahukini,
was spent in Lihue touring about the
town and visiting the points of interest
on Lihue plantation.
Kauai has been named "The Gar,
den" The panoramic vistas through
which the pilot ear passed on the road
to Waimea justify the name in every
sense. For Kauai to the visitor seems
one vast garden shaped and modelled
by some giant hand that tore great
gulches up into the mountains, washed
spreading deltas of fertile soil down
into the valleys and out below the
mountains into broad plains to the seas.
And man has followed and planted this
/ garden in every variety of color and
crop. .. % .,t.
The Olokele and Puu Ka Pele roads
must not be taken as examples Of
Kauai s roads. They are the opposite,
| for Kauai s belt road is a perfect
stretch of highway with similarly we'll.
built highways branching of at FIRE
quent intervals. .s :
Kauai's citizens are rdevoting all
their energy to making this belt road
the best permanent roadway in the Isl
ands. Then similar treatment will be
| given the roads to the numerous scenic
! points on the Islands. The construction
of the belt road is about complete.
| The trip from Nawiliwili to the Wal
mea Hotel with numerous side trips, re-
quired a day. The straight-away run
ming time is about an hour and half
| The distance over a perfect roadway,
is just under thirty miles. After making
this trip Wednesday, The Advertiser
Pilot Car visltd Olokele Canyon Thurs
day morning and made trips to Wal
mea Sugar Company plantation and to
Kekaha Sugar Company plantation.
Thursday afternoon trip was made
to The Barking Sands, twelve miles be.
yond Waimea and practically at the end
of the road near the base of the insur'
mOhntable pail that abuts on the Kau,
nj coast at this point.
Friday morning was spent in further
trips about the scenic country that sur
/ rounds the town of Waimea, including
the nearby plantations. Friday after,
noon the pilot car made its long hard
trip up to Pun Ka Pele. -"
Saturday morning the party returned
to lhhue, stopping for several hours at
Makaweli plantation where b, ID. Bald
/ win, manager Of the Hawaiian Sugar
i Company's property was host to the
members of the party in trip around
this model plantation. ~ ~. II
AT Lihue, the party found adequate
accommodations at the Lihue Hotel and
at Waimea, Frank Cox, manager OF
Waimea Hotel, provided the party witt
ideal quarters for their three day stay
at this point ,'.'. -
! Along the route, +. Jacobs at the Ko
loa store and J, |. Silva, owners OF
stores at Hanapepe, Homestead and
Eleele, gave II hospitable reception Il
the travellers of the pilot car. Boil
stores are equipped with automobile ne
eommOdations as are numerous othei
points which will be listed In the road
guide that is being compiled by tn,
party on this trip.