• Stagnant water in Po‘ipu • More reflectors • Your own back yard Stagnant water in Po‘ipu The main parking lot at Po‘ipu Beach has been covered with stagnant water for days. This lake of pollution is a breeding ground
• Stagnant water in Po‘ipu
• More reflectors
• Your own back yard
Stagnant water in Po‘ipu
The main parking lot at Po‘ipu Beach has been covered with stagnant water for days. This lake of pollution is a breeding ground for mosquitos, a health hazard, and it smells.
This is not an isolated incident, because it was also submerged for days in both 2006 and 2007. Who is responsible for allowing this parking lot to be built with no means of draining?
Was it the Planning Department, the Public Works Department, or another agency?
When will the County step up to the plate and do something about this very serious problem?
• Linda Estes, Koloa
More reflectors
Our highways and roads’ reflectors need to be replaced, especially in areas where it is darker at night. These reflectors in dark areas and on a stormy night are life savers.
Reflectors act as guides while driving on the highways and roads.
When the vehicle lights shines on it, it reflects yellow that divides the highways and roads into two lanes, it reflects white on the shoulder of the roads in the direction one is traveling, and it reflects red on the shoulder of the oncoming lane (opposite of your direction of travel).
I’ve traveled to Kokee for work for many years and I thought I knew every ‘S’ curve while traveling up there. I found out I was fooling myself.
Earlier this month, I was driving to work in heavy fog and rain without fog lights on my vehicle. If it wasn’t for the reflectors (which there are so little of) I used to guide me on the way up to work, I would have probably driven off the road.
The reflectors are the next best thing to a lighted highways and roads.
• Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Your own back yard
My favorite assignment back when I was in photography school was called “your own back yard.”
The concept of “your own back yard” is to open your eyes and be creative and you do not have to go anywhere. Try shooting close-ups of a bee pollinating something, or a nice long lens to capture exotic clouds at sunset.
No need to go to Yosemite or the swiss Alps, there’s something special everywhere.
The irony that so many people feel the need to travel at Christmas and New Years. I saw on the news thousands are being stranded at airports and will miss being with their families.
The stress of travel along with all the crowds is the worst possible way to spend any day, especially a holiday.
Luckily, we live here on Kaua‘i, and there’s no need to go anywhere. I’m just enjoying my own back yard.
• James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
