Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Museum Tuesday

The following are images I found online.
This is supposedly a rendering of the fishponds in the Aiea district. The mountains in the area match up with the angle as viewed from the shore of Pearl Harbor. Although it is not exactly specific to which fishponds they are...
 
This image is of a very young, industrialized view of the shores of Pearl Harbor. The dry dock is located where Kualua Island would have been. Now filled in and connected to the mainland of Oahu. It was said that the brother of the shark god Kaahupahau, Kahi'uka. Lived in a cave under where the dry dock was built. It angered him and tremors would rock the foundations of it. Causing it to repeatedly fail. Until a floating dry dock was constructed...


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