🚨 ROAD CLOSURE – HAMAKUA 🚨
Heads up, gang! Highway 19 (Old Mamalahoa Hwy) is closed near the 31.5 Mile Marker by Nupea Homestead Rd due to a brush fire.
🔥 No evacuations.
🚫 No detour available.
Avoid the area & stay safe!
#HawaiiTraffic #Hamakua #RoadClosure #BrushFire #Hawaii

Stephanotis flower lei in the poepoe style.

Lush green Hawaiian forest with native palapalai ferns. Kalopa State Park.

Two wahine making palapalai fern lei under ohia lehua trees. Kalopa Park, Hamakua, Hawai'i Island.

A paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) rides a horse carrying the hae Hawai'i (flag) opens the Honoka`a Rodeo.

It was a wonderful Memorial Day weekend celebrating dearly departed loved ones and a longtime friend's birthday 🎂... from Hilo, to Kalopa, to the Honoka`a Rodeo 🐎 #MokuoKeawe #Kalopa #leimakers #leiculture #Hamakua #paniolo #Hawaiian

Today:
I play the Hamakua Penberthy custom for you. If this was not already destined for someone else, I would strongly be considering adding it to my small collection.
Listen to that tone!
youtu.be/L6W9Gx8C8o8

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