HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY - ‘AU:  Swim
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY -
“Swim carefully in quiet waters, lest it splash into the eyes.”

September 29, 1961: The East Maui Irrigation Ditches, which currently bring as much as 160 million gallons of water a day from East Maui to the Central Valley, are shown to serve another purpose. Keo Makama, a physical education instructor on Maui, learns to swim in a Maui irrigation ditch. On this day, he becomes the first person to swim the Kaiwi Channel, the body of water between Molokai and Oahu. It took him 15 hours and 37 minutes.

Two Maui Girls Die Swimming Lowrie Ditch
Swimming, tubing or rafting  is no longer allowed in Maui’s ditches. Community pools are wider and safer.

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The superferry is a symbol.

For both sides. And each side knows that a great deal is at stake. It is not about money. If it were, there would be different people at the head of it. You don’t run an important race with bald tires. In fact, those at the head of the superferry ensure financial failure. They have failed before in other ventures, and survive purely on the basis of “arrogant political sycophancy.”

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