Hawaiian Anchialine Pools
HawaiiAnchialine Pools:
T: Julia Russo and Linds Hawaiian Anchialine Pools: ʻŌpae ʻUla
The ʻōpae ʻula and the Hawaiian anchialine pools have been a large part of Hawaii’s environment. We chose this topic because we wanted to learn about a Hawaiian species because we were both raised in Hawaii, and that the ʻōpae ʻula is endemic to Hawaii. We chose to do a poster board so we could reflect and make the things that we say easy to remember. In the Waianapanapa Cave, people are putting guppies and other invasive species into the pool, and they are driving the ʻōpae ʻula towards the back of the cave, this is a negative environmental issue. Soon, the ʻōpae ʻula and all the other animals in the pool might go extinct because the the …show more content…
ʻŌpae ʻula means Red Shrimp, when translated into English. ʻŌpae ʻulas can grow up to the size of 1.5 centimeters. The anchialine pools are a unique type of tidepools that have brackish water. Brackish water is a mix of salt and fresh water. Anchialine means lava in Hawaiian and Latin, since the walls of the pools are made of hardened lava. The ancient Hawaiians different uses for the ʻōpae ʻula. One of them was that they would catch an ʻōpae and take it out to sea and use it as bait to catch fish, most likely the ʻōpelu. The fish was then dried and salted and eaten during the season of the rough ocean …show more content…
A young princess named Popoalaea married a warrior chief, Kakae. Over time, Kakae became suspicious that she was unfaithful to him, and made her life miserable. With her servant friend, she fled. They hid during days and came out at night to forage for food and figure out how to escape the island. Kakae got angrier as he searched for them with a number of his men.One day, he found them at the pool where they had been hiding. Kakae and his men killed the two women. It's said that the waters foamed and the women’s blood darkened the rocks in the cavern and the waters of the cave turned red. In the spring, the time the tragedy occurred, is the gathering of the red ʻōpae ʻula. They make the stones of the cave turn even
T: Julia Russo and Linds Hawaiian Anchialine Pools: ʻŌpae ʻUla
The ʻōpae ʻula and the Hawaiian anchialine pools have been a large part of Hawaii’s environment. We chose this topic because we wanted to learn about a Hawaiian species because we were both raised in Hawaii, and that the ʻōpae ʻula is endemic to Hawaii. We chose to do a poster board so we could reflect and make the things that we say easy to remember. In the Waianapanapa Cave, people are putting guppies and other invasive species into the pool, and they are driving the ʻōpae ʻula towards the back of the cave, this is a negative environmental issue. Soon, the ʻōpae ʻula and all the other animals in the pool might go extinct because the the …show more content…
ʻŌpae ʻula means Red Shrimp, when translated into English. ʻŌpae ʻulas can grow up to the size of 1.5 centimeters. The anchialine pools are a unique type of tidepools that have brackish water. Brackish water is a mix of salt and fresh water. Anchialine means lava in Hawaiian and Latin, since the walls of the pools are made of hardened lava. The ancient Hawaiians different uses for the ʻōpae ʻula. One of them was that they would catch an ʻōpae and take it out to sea and use it as bait to catch fish, most likely the ʻōpelu. The fish was then dried and salted and eaten during the season of the rough ocean …show more content…
A young princess named Popoalaea married a warrior chief, Kakae. Over time, Kakae became suspicious that she was unfaithful to him, and made her life miserable. With her servant friend, she fled. They hid during days and came out at night to forage for food and figure out how to escape the island. Kakae got angrier as he searched for them with a number of his men.One day, he found them at the pool where they had been hiding. Kakae and his men killed the two women. It's said that the waters foamed and the women’s blood darkened the rocks in the cavern and the waters of the cave turned red. In the spring, the time the tragedy occurred, is the gathering of the red ʻōpae ʻula. They make the stones of the cave turn even