| Feature: | Gulch, spring |
| Comments: | Spring at the shore at Mokulau. The name also refers to the gulch above the spring. The remains of an old pump house stand near the spring at the shoreline, and a newer pump house is located above the road. Historian Moses Manu described the waters of Punahoa in an excerpt of the legend of Laukaieie published in the newspaper Nupepa Ka Oiaio on November 16, 1894: "A he nui a lehulehu wale na mana wai liilii ma keia aina o Kaupo, a mai loko mai o ke kumu o keia wai, ka wai e hu ala ma ka Paala ma ke kahakai o Punahoa." (There are many small streams in this area of Kaupo [Waikaia, in Manawainui Valley], and this is the source of the water that emerges at the water-worn rocks at the shore of Punahoa.) Bishop Museum researcher Thomas Maunupau wrote about Punahoa in his account of a visit to Kaupo in May 1922: "Maanei hele liilii hou aku makou e ike i ka wai o Kapunahoa, e kahe mai ana no, a he wahi uuku wale no keia a ua kapaia no o Kapunahoa mai keia wahi wai mai. O ka wai keia a Pamano i auau ai, ke hele oia i ka heenalu." (Here we went a little further to see the water of Kapunahoa flowing. It is a small place, and called Kapunahoa from the water. This is the water in which Pamano [a demigod] bathed after surfing.) Mentioned in an obituary in Ka Hoku o ka Pakipika in October 1862: "Kuu hoa mai ka wai halana i ke kai o Punahoa." (My companion of the flooding waters of the sea at Punahoa.) An obituary in the newspaper Ke Alakai o Hawaii in 1931 mentioned Punahoa: "Aloha no kahi wai nahunahu pu o Punahoa, kahi wai a na kupa o ka aina ame na malihini e luakaha ai." (What love for the nippy waters of Punahoa, where natives and visitors while away the time.) |
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| Further reading: | Punahoa Spring (Ulukau.org) |