Maui Salt & Sage Productions, Graphic Design and Videography

01/07/2025

A few recent photos…

10/25/2024

A rare find. A mobile mechanic who won’t cause you to take out a second mortgage. This young man is the best, especially since most mechanic shops are gone since the Lahaina fire.
Andres, 808-276-6250. Tell him Philip Wikel referred you 😊

09/20/2024

Kīpahulu, Maui
by Peter T. Young

The south-eastern section of the island of Maui, comprising the districts of Hāna, Kīpahulu, Kaupo and Kahikinui, was at one time a Royal Center and central point of kingly and priestly power.

This section of the island was prominent in the reign of Kekaulike, and has Maui’s largest heiau (Piʻilanihale Heiau – near Hāna.) Others also seated their power here.

Long before the first Europeans arrived on Maui, Kīpahulu was prized by the Hawaiian aliʻi for its fertile land and abundant ocean.

The first written description of Kīpahulu was made by La Pérouse in 1786 while sailing along the southeast coast of Maui in search of a place to drop anchor:

“I coasted along its shore at a distance of a league (three miles) …. The aspect of the island of Mowee was delightful. We beheld water falling in cascades from the mountains, and running in streams to the sea, after having watered the habitations of the natives, which are so numerous that a space of three or four leagues (9 – 12 miles, about the distance from Hāna to Kaupō) may be taken for a single village.” (Bushnell)

“But all the huts are on the seacoast, and the mountains are so near, that the habitable part of the island appeared to be less than half a league in depth. The trees which crowned the mountains, and the verdure of the banana plants that surrounded the habitations, produced inexpressible charms to our senses …”

“… but the sea beat upon the coast with the utmost violence, and kept us in the situation of Tantalus, desiring and devouring with our eyes what it was impossible for us to attain … After passing Kaupō no more waterfalls are seen, and villages are fewer.” (Bushnell)

With the development of the whaling industry on the island in 1880s Kīpahulu population started to decline as people moved to main whaling ports, such as Lāhainā.

In the early-1900s, one of the regular ports of call for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was Kīpahulu. Steamships provided passenger service around Maui and between the islands.

Kīpahulu Landing also provided a way for growers and ranchers to ship their goods to markets. Today the land where Kīpahulu Landing existed is private but protected with a conservation easement, overseen by the Maui Coastal Land Trust (now part of the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust.)

A famous Kīpahulu resident was Charles Lindbergh. He was the first to make a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Other pilots had crossed the Atlantic before him; but Lindbergh was the first person to do it alone nonstop.

“Early in the morning on May 20, 1927 Charles Lindbergh took off in The Spirit of St. Louis from Roosevelt Field near New York City. Flying northeast along the coast, he was sighted later in the day flying over Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.”

“From St. Johns, Newfoundland, he headed out over the Atlantic, using only a magnetic compass, his airspeed indicator, and luck to navigate toward Ireland.” (New York Times, May 21, 1927)

“On the evening of May 21, he crossed the coast of France, followed the Seine River to Paris and touched down at Le Bourget Field at 10:22 pm. … A frenzied crowd of more than 100,000 people gathered at Le Bourget Field to greet him. ” (New York Times, May 21, 1927)

Lindbergh was introduced to Maui by his friend Sam Pryor, a Pan American Vice President and supporter of his flight across the Atlantic. Having first visited Pryor’s home near Hana, Lindberg later acquired land next to him and built his house.

Lindbergh died of cancer on Aug. 26, 1974, in his home on Maui. He was buried on the grounds of the Palapala Hoʻomau Church. (Pryor died in 1985 and is buried there, too – as well as Sam’s six gibbons.)

Kīpahulu’s Palapala Hoʻomau Church started construction in 1857 and was completed in 1862; it was restored in 1965 (with a lot of help from Lindberg and Pryor.)

In January 2012, the Palapala Hoʻomau Preservation Society was created to care for the Church. For many years, an endowment administered by the Hawai‘i Conference Foundation, set up by the Lindbergh and Pryor families, provided funds for maintenance and upkeep of the property. (hcucc)

In recent years, the need for restoration work on the church has gone beyond what the endowment fund can provide. Although there is no regular worshipping community at Palapala Hoʻomau, the historical significance of the church and graveyard, as well as the number of visitors who come to the property each year, led the Hawai‘i Conference Foundation to find a solution. (hcucc)

Mike Love of the Beach Boys later bought the Lindberg home, a 5-acre estate, down a twisting, scenic road a few miles from Hāna. Love also purchased the Pryor’s 14-acre adjacent site and house. (Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1989)

© 2024 Hoʻokuleana LLC

09/03/2024

My home Maui…

08/23/2024

I’ve lived in every decade
By Philip Scott Wikel

I’ve lived in every decade
As far it goes back:
I was there at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius
I did the jitterbug
I signed the Declaration of Independence
And drank Vodka with Dostoevsky

I smoked o***m with Coleridge
And he wrote a line for me
While William Tell
Shot an apple off my head and
Billy Blake wrote The Songs of Innocence
Milton proclaimed that the fall from grace
Was Adams fault

At the cavern in Liverpool
I was the sound man for The Beatles
And rocked the Casbah with The Clash

In Paris I had coffee with Picasso, Vincent and
Franco, who started a revolution high on caffeine
and I snorted coke and drank whiskey with
Charles Bukowski

I stormed the Bastille
did time with Al Capone
ran with John Dillinger
And did shots with Bonnie and Clyde

In China I hung with Mao
prayed with the Dalai Lama
And learned that we are all eternal

I sailed with Kamehameha
And joined in killing Cook
a day later
I Watched Hi**er run into a bunker

I was a prisoner of war in Vietnam
And watched my children die.
Then woke up to the sound of The Zombies singing
“The Time of The Season”
and made love to Marie Antoinette

In Greece I was a sculptor
Or, really, just a laborer,
And helped with the Parthenon
While moonlighting on the Pyramids.

In 1941 I watched the planes over Pearl Harbor
Then helped Don McLean write “American Pie”
While listening to Mozart in Vienna

Later that day
I went on the road with Jack Kerouac and drank wine
With Neal Cassidy and Allen Ginsburg
Allen started to howl so

I went off to the Yukon and panned for Gold,
missed the Rush in California.
Waking up to Reagan being shot while
A Flock of Seagulls
Ran “So Far Away”

Ive lived in every decade
I bunked with Elvis and held Buddy Holly’s hand as he died

In 1929 I watched the market crash
And jumped out of a window and
Made a soft landing
Only to end up in a Hooverville shooting craps
With Buster Brown

Julius Caesar confided in me
And then I conspired to kill him all along
Making love to Helen and sailing to troy

In San Francisco I watched the city burn while
Placing bets on Secretariat
And played bass for The Rolling Stones
Playing RubyTuesday
And I went home hopeful

I fought for The North in The Civil War
And watched Lincoln get shot
Then tuned into Walter Cronkite announcing Kennedy’s death
MLK, RFK, and Malcolm X all
Died while I jammed with the Doors

Ive lived in every decade
As far as you can think back
I was there at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

Yesterday
Love was such an easy game to play
And John Lennon
Would’ve been 84 this year

Bono says “You glorify the past when the future dries up”
And I agree sometimes
When I’m not thinking about
All of the family I’ve lost

Tomorrow is the future
And I can only hope that I’ll be living in every decade
“From Here To Eternity…”
This is just the abridged version

08/21/2024

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead, yesterday is a promise that you’ve broken, don’t close your eyes, cuz today is all you’ve got now.

08/17/2024

Aloha. I’m searching for a partner for Salty Zen Clothing. Someone who has business expertise and can make things happen. Having motivated financial connections in terms of angel investors and can help build a national brand.

08/14/2024

The left and the right are just wings on the same bird. Our government is a one party system that seeks only to confuse, cause dissension and manufacture your opinion. They trade off administrations but, in the end it’s all business as usual.

07/22/2024

Welcome to the planet/Welcome to existence/Everyone's here/
We're painfully uncool/What happens next?
I dare you to move!

07/16/2024

07/03/2024

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
Is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger
and you had everything to lose
- Switchfoot

06/30/2024

One of the more contemplative bands of the past 20 years. They still had the passion of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. And were hoping for positive change. God love a band that still had hope for the future.

"Meant To Live" by Switchfoot from the album "The Beautiful Letdown" (2003)

06/30/2024

What’s up with the current generation? Even in 2003 there were bands striving for more.

Switchfoot, with, Meant to Live from the Spiderman soundtrack.

06/22/2024

Cruisin' On The Pali, Maui

Cruisin' On The Pali, Maui

06/21/2024

Ukumehame Sunset

06/12/2024

Just Add Salt: A Surf Video

Just Add Salt: A Surf Video