Day 7:

Did a tour of the Ka’a’awa valley (a.k.a. Kualoa Ranch) to get a better idea of what sorts of data we will be collecting.

We started the day with a lecture from Dr. Terry Hunt from the University of Hawaii. His lecture explained the basic overview of Polynesian archaeology and it’s relation to Hawaiian archaeology. It was really interesting to hear about how people throughout history have navigated across oceans and found these small islands with relatively little technology. I also really enjoyed hearing about how the different languages developed across the different locations relevant to their spatial distributions. We followed this excellent lecture with a quick yet delicious lunch and then headed out to the Kualoa Ranch.

On our tour of Kualoa Ranch we saw the many features. It was funny that most of the excitement came when crossing movie sets. I was most excited to see  the sets from LOST as it is one of my all time favorite TV shows, but that’s not why we’re here. The tour guide, David, is the owner or part owner of Kualoa Ranch and he showed us A LOT. I’m pretty sure it was not the usual tour. After, we sat down and strategized how our groups will go about collecting the data and processing it. Greg and I, the UAV group, was able to set our plan up pretty easily. 

Anyway, I have to set up the tent so I’m not up all night being attacked by mosquitoes. Goodnight!