ON WEDNESDAY JULY 4 WE WENT TO KAUAi'S SALT PONDS TO HARVEST SALT. i HAD NO CLUE THAT HAWAiiANS STiLL HARVESTED SALT!!.....iN FACT i KNEW "NOTHiNG" ABOUT SALT HARVESTiNG....i MEAN i JUST TOOK THE FACT THAT SALT CAME OFF OF STORE SHELVES.....HA HA.....iT WAS A NEW EXPERiENCE FOR MOST OF US....NOT MANY PEOPLE GET TO HARVEST SALT.
iM PRETTY SURE THAT EVERYONE WAS HONORED TO MEET A FAMiLY THAT STiLL FOLLOWS THROUGH WiTH HAWAiiAN SALT TRADiTiONS....WE WERE TOLD THAT HARVESTiNG WAS THE BEST AND EASiEST PART......"YEAH RiGHT!!".....i TRiED TO REMAiN AS CLEAN AS i COULD STAY BUT i WAS LiKE FORGET iT....MY HANDS FELT CHALKY AND STARTED BURNiNG.....ME AND SALEENA WAS BALLiN!!!....CRACKiNG UP AND GETTiNG DiRTY SURELY MADE THE TiME GO BY FASTER.....
GET THE SALT, WASH iT, WASH iT AGAiN, AND WASH iT AGAiN, AND AGAiN, THEN PUT iT iN A BUCKET AT THE SAME TiME SOMEONE iS FiLLiNG YOUR DiRTY SALT TUB WiTH MORE SALT!!.....AND THAT WAS JUST A SMALL FRACTiON OF THE FiFTY SiX 5 GALLON BUCKETS WE PRODUCED....YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH!!!....TRUTHFULLY i THiNK THAT WAS THE FiRST AND LAST TiME THAT MOST OF US WOULD EXPERiENCE HARVESTiNG SALT....i'VE DEFiNATELY LEARNED THAT SALT iS NOT JUST SALT....SALT iS NOT SOMETHiNG iS TAKEN FOR GRANTED....i CERTAiNLY FEEL THAT EVERYONE FEELS THE SAME WAS AS ME AND iM SURE THAT EVERYONE WiLL KEEP THEiR SALT HARVESTiNG MEMORiES FOREVER.....
TALK ABOUT YOUR SALT MEMORiES!!
MAHALO,
SAM.
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HEY HOW YA DOIN SAMMY, Hey it's the one and only TMAN a.k.a. Thomas Kerr here sayin that don't worry about being clueless of how to harvest salt because I didn't know what fo do as well. Besides that the work took quite a long time, the weather wasn't bad, besides it being very windy with a lot of sun. The part that I liked was when we had to wash the salt to get all that NASTY STUFF out of the salt, in order for it to be pure white salt. However, I did hate the part when my hands got dry and my skin started to feel very rough instead of smooth. I have got to admit that the learning experience that we had of witnessing the work of how to harvest the salt and how the salt is made. Well, at least everyone got to at least clean the salt and try some of it. WELL I SEE YA LATER!!!!! I'M OUT!!!
Hawaiian Salt.. I will always remember doing this. It was my first time going ther and i had a blast. I felt so special going there and i had fun harvesting it.
Hey Sam! I'm still so bummed that I wasn't able to go inside the salt ponds! I hope all of you guys had an awesome time because I wish that I could've been there. But at the same time I totally respect the Hawaiian tradition of cleanliness. Maybe one day I'll be blessed enough to experience it.
What I remember about making salt, is that Jennifer and I were not allowed for a personal reason, but we read a lot about how it was prepared, when to prepare it, what you need etc. It was very interesting finding out that the island of Kauai is the only island that harvests salt ponds..Cool stuff man!
*Kahea
THE SALT IS WONDERFUL...IT HEALED MY FINGER I CHOPPED OFF. I'M CURED! I LOVE HAWAIIAN SALT, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT HARVESTING IT, BUT I SURE DO LOVE IT. AND THE PEOPLE WHO WORK HARD HARVESTING IT.
Harvesting pa`akai was hard work!! But I agree, it was very rewarding at the end. It was a special experience for me, because I don`t think anyone in my family has ever harvested salt before. I`m glad that I can go home and share the experience with my `ohana. It`s a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing!
SALT, SALT, AND MORE SALT! I CAN'T GET ENOUGH SALT CAN I. SALT AT POIPU WAS A FUN EXPEREINCE, BECAUSE I NEVER THOUGHT SALT WAS GATHERED IN THAT MANNER. BUT I GUESS THERE IS SOMETHING NEW TO LEARN EVERYDAY.
SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT....and....more SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT SALT! Nothing but SALT. My knees covered in SALT, my arms covered in SALT, cuts on my fingers from bamboo baskets, and what got into my cuts? more SALT that stung like the heck. SALT IN MY HAIR, mouth. You can just say it was a SALTY DAY. It was an experience.
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