Featured Maui Real Estate Property Listings

Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 151 Napoko Place - click here for more information A stunning view from this newer custom home at the incredible  price of $1,150,000
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 1 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 2 811 Lower Kimo Drive - click here for more information Lot 3 THREE 1/2-acre vacant lots with ocean and ranch land views.   Each is zoned for a main house and cottage. $400,000, $425,000 & $450,000
Wailea - South Maui Real Estate The Palms at Wailea #904 - click here for more information This 2-bedroom, 2-bath  upgraded (and updated!) condo is nicely  located on the greenbelt and has some ocean view. Best of all, it can be vacation rented!  $848,000
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 3610 Lower Kula Road - click here for more information A professional designer took extra care in designing this magnificent home. $2,995,000 Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/KulaView
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 131 Makailoa Street - click here for more infomation 11,761 square foot vacant lot, cleared, level and mowed with a County water meter installed. Best priced vacant lot (with water meter) Upcountry! $349,000
Olinda– Upcountry Real Estate 25 Lumahai Place – click here for more info This is the perfect Olinda home! Tucked away off Olinda Road – just a few minutes above Seabury Hall – lots of privacy and views AND a recently remodeled 1-bedroom, 1-bath cottage with its own driveway and yard. 2.88 acres. $1,450,000 Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/Olinda
Pukalani-Kulamalu – Upcountry Real Estate   33 Ala'apapa Place - click here for more info The views from this 3-bedroom, 3-bath home overlook the 6th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course to the ocean and West Maui Mountains beyond. The home and yard are impeccably maintained (challenge: try to find a speck of dust in the house or a weed in the yard!). $739,800  Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/33Alaapapa
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 230 Mokuahi St. – click here for more info TWO charming homes on a beautifully landscaped, incredibly private half-acre. $749,000
Baldwin Avenue – Upcountry Real Estate 1900 Baldwin Avenue – click here for more info You will feel like you stepped back in time when you enter this property! The 1930’s era house, cottage and studio are on over an acre of land that over looks miles of sugar cane fields to north and south shore ocean views. $1,885,000 Virtual Tour: www.HomeOnMaui.com/Sunnyside
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 2470 Kaupakalua Road A lovingly remodeled 5-bedroom, 2-bath home on 2-acres that is fenced and cross-fenced with Keawe posts. There is a 2-stall barn with tack room, a horse pasture, a 2,800 sq. ft. greenhouse and lots of fruit trees. $888,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 8060 Kula Highway 7.9-acres with coast to coast views! New gated large lot subdivision with only 5 lots. Spectacular! $1,100,000 - SOLD
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 2886 Ualani Place Immculately maintained 3-bedroom, 2-bath, single-level home on the 9th fairway of the Pukalani Country Club. $699,000 - SOLD
Pukalani– Upcountry Real Estate 124 Ala’apapa Place Custom 4-bedroom, 3-bath home, detached cottage and 5-car garage! Hardwood floors, central AC, central vacuum, granite counter tops, travertine bathrooms and dramatic views. $1,095,000 - SOLD
Haiku – Upcountry Real Estate 1390 Kokomo Road Maliko House – a romantic and unique property with complete privacy, mature tropical landscaping, a 2,000 sf workshop/studio and much more on 1.9-acres. $2,350,000 - SOLD
Kahului – Central Maui Real Estate 13 Ho’owehi Place Like-new 3-bedroom, 3-bath home in a great new neighborhood! $609,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 241 Waiama Way Haiku Hill at its best! 3-bedroom, 3.5-bath, 4,500 square foot home. Amazing attention to detail. Sweeping ocean views. $2,850,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 65 Maud’s Place This is a beautiful 5-bedroom home with a wonderful floor plan! Located in the Keokea area on a 2-acre view lot – this is one of the nicest homes on the market in Kula. $1,595,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 2936 Lower Kula Road This 4-bedroom, 2.5-bath home in lower Kula has a detached cottage and sits on a level, half-acre lot. GREAT views! $890,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 295 Pulehu Road Architecturally-designed home in desirable Lower Kula, surrounded by multi-million dollar homes on 2- to 20-acre parcels. $2,995,000 - SOLD
Haiku – North Shore Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Rd. This C.W. Dickey-designed home and detached art studio was built in 1930 for Ethel and Harry Baldwin and moved to its present site in 1997. A “must see” if you are looking for views and privacy! $1,225,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 670 Hoene St., Maui Uplands Beautiful 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with ocean views and detached 1 bedroom, 1 bath cottage on a half-acre. $985,000 - SOLD
Olinda – Upcountry Real Estate 2188 Pi’iholo Road Great cottage on a .5-acre in Olinda! Check it out! $598,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Ka Drive Located in one of my favorite neighborhoods, Kula Kai, this single-level home sits on a private 14,255 sq. ft. lot with ocean view. $698,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 111 Keleawe Street This 4-bedroom, 2-bath home has a flexible floor plan, a detached 2-bedroom cottage and a large workshop/storage building. It's a great value at $779,000 - SOLD
Kahului - Central Maui Real Estate Kahului Ikena #40-221 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo with NEW: carpet, tile, paint, faucets, blinds refrigerator and closet built-ins! Convenient location. $239,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate 50 Ahuwale Place 3 bedroom, 2 bath home plus detached studio/workshop with bathroom on 2 level, useable acres only 15 minutes to town. $885,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 320 Hololani Street Impeccably maintained, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on the 11th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $819,000 - SOLD
Haiku - North Shore Real Estate 373 Ulumalu Road Tucked back from the road among beautiful big trees is this 3-bedroom, 2.5-bath home with 3 large bonus rooms. $750,000 - SOLD
Makawao – Upcountry Real Estate 1000 Ukiu Rd. Classic 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath ‘plantation’ home in perfect condition on a 10,000+ sq. ft. lot.  Large kitchen and bedrooms; private backyard. Perfectly priced at $550,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 11 Welina Place This is a beautiful 4 bedroom, 3 bath, 4,364 square foot home on 2 acres in Kula 200. It is all on one level with the exception of the 816 square foot master bedroom suite which has a bi-coastal view. Fabulous! $1,685,000 - SOLD
Kula - Upcountry Real Estate 297 Kulamanu Circle This like-new home has great curb appeal. Very nice landscaping and sideyard. Private and tranquil inside the home. Upper and lower decks overlook ranchland and Maalaea. Beautiful ocean view from living room and master BR. 9' ceilings upstairs. Fireplace (with blower) in living room. Double-pane windows throuighout. Built-in Bose sound system. Stainless steel appliances and Corian countertops. Walk-in closet in master BR. Whirlpool tub in master BA. Big family room with half-BA (and closet )downstairs. Easy to show. $860,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 157 Pi'imauna Street Kua'Aina Ridge: This gorgeous 3-bedroom, 2-bath home has amazing attention to detail (crown molding, plantation shuttered windows, bead-board wainscoting, etc.), a gourmet kitchen, perfect landscaping and nice north shore ocean views. $760,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 1576 Lower Kimo Drive Immaculate 4-bedroom, 3-bath (OR: 3-bedroom, 2-bath with attached 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana). Newly painted inside and out, brand new flooring and new appliances. Nothing left to do but move in and enjoy the great south shore ocean view and the fabulous Kula climate! $715,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 256 Hololani St. Beautiful 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 1-bedroom, 1-bath ohana on the 12th fairway of the Pukalani Golf Course. $929,000 - SOLD
Kihei - South Maui Real Estate Menehune Shores #416 Oh what a view! Walk in the front door and all you see are islands and ocean! This 1-bedroom, 1-bath, 4th floor, ‘front & center’ unit was completely renovated in 2001 – new EVERYTHING! $650,000 - SOLD
Haiku - Upcountry Real Estate 2080 Lilikoi Road This is the classic C.W. Dickey-designed home on 2-acres with an amazing view! $1,550,000 - SOLD
Kula – Upcountry Real Estate 28 Mano Drive, Kula Kai Nice, big, comfortable 4-bedroom, 3-bath home in Kula Kai with a very flexible floor plan. This would be a great house for a large or extended family as the downstairs offers independence from the rest of the house. $825,000 - SOLD
Pukalani - Upcountry Real Estate 350 Lokelani house A cute 3-bedroom, 2-bath home with 2-car garage and panoramic north to south shore views! $700,000 - SOLD
Makawao - Upcountry Real Estate This is the classic “old plantation house” that everyone wants! Complete with glass door knobs, French doors, a big porch and an old “wash house” out back! Located across from pineapple fields this is a great buy at $495,000 - SOLD

Natural History

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Pipi Tales

In 1793, when the first half-dozen or so California longhorns made it onto Hawaiian soil at Kealakekua on the Big Island, they were a marvel to the Hawaiian people.  The pipi, cattle, were the largest four-legged creatures they had ever seen.  (Before then, the heftiest quadruped in the islands was the pig.)  The creatures were a gift from the British explorer George Vancouver to King Kamehameha I and cemented their friendship. 

A decade later, horses joined the bovines and Hawaiians were awe-struck by these beautiful quadrupeds as well. 

According to some reports, the lone bull which made the long, exhausting sea voyage with Captain Vancouver died not long after landing, but one of the cows gave birth to a bull calf which became the progenitor of the Hawaiian herds.  The king imposed a ten-year kapu, making it a crime to kill or hurt the animals, at the captain's suggestion, and the herd grew.  As it grew, the animals spread throughout the kingdom. 

However, because of their protected status the herds quickly became a menace.  Before his death in 1819, the king ordered the construction of a stone wall to keep the animals out of villages and taro patches in Kona.  By then the animals were terrorizing the area's human population, ravaging vegetable gardens and planted fields, and stampeding through the villages, causing the people to run for their lives. 

The king had already lifted the kapu on killing the cattle around the turn of the century, and they were being hunted through the mountain forests for their meat, tallow, and hides.  Organized hunting parties of bullock hunters either trapped the animals in deep pits or stalked them safari-style.  (The animals were too wild to be driven to market alive.)  In their hunter camps, the hunters salted the meat, tanned the hides, and rendered tallow that was in high demand in Honolulu.

Around 1830, Kamehameha III invited three Mexican vaqueros to the Big Island to teach Hawaiians how to domesticate the wild cattle and the paniolo, the colorful Hawaiian cowboy, was born.  As cattle were domesticated and ranching became more widespread, new bloodlines were introduced to Hawaii.  The original longhorns were left to wander in the mountains as "scrub" cattle, while shorthorn Hereford, Angus and other breeds took over Hawaiian pastures. 

It was decades before beef from domestic cattle replaced meat harvested from the forest-dwelling wild cattle, however.  An 1848 estimate showed 35,000 head of cattle in the kingdom, of which 25,000 were still wild.  By the 1870's, when the ranching industry had reached its peak, the days of the bullock hunters were just about done.  According to tax assessments in 1879 there were about 79,350 domesticated cattle in Hawaii.  Just five years later, there were as many as 117,600.

Still, more than 150 years after the arrival of the first longhorns in Hawaii, descendants of the leggy, sharp-horned, ferocious "Old Vancouvers" still roamed the deep forests and remote mountains of Hawaii despite efforts by ranchers to hunt down the wild cattle to keep them from interbreeding with the tame herds. 

By the 1850s, Hawaiian beef and hides were already being shipped off to California, Alaska and other places.  In 1860, it was recorded that 250 barrels of beef were exported along with more than 577,000 pounds of hides.

Still, more than 150 years after the arrival of the first longhorns in Hawaii, descendants of the leggy, sharp-horned, ferocious "Old Vancouvers" still roamed the deep forests and remote mountains of Hawaii despite continuing efforts by ranchers to hunt down the wild cattle, the pipi 'ahiu, to keep them from interbreeding with the tame herds.

(In 1972, however, naturalist Arthur Halloran, a retired biologist for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service wrote "The Hawaiian Longhorn Story," which argued for the preservation of the wild cattle as a unique bit of Hawaiian history.)

As sugar grew to become the dominant industry in Hawaii during the first half of the twentieth century, land that was once prime pasture land was planted in cane. Grazing was pushed further and further into the fringe areas that were unsuited to cane-growing for one reason or another. Cattle were also grazed in areas that were too distant for the transport of the favored crop harvests to processing plants or to market.

The larger ranches still shipped to Honolulu markets, but some smaller ranches were converted into adjuncts that served the sugar (and later the pineapple) plantations, raising draft animals for the fields and beef for the workers.

Cattle arrived on Maui within a dozen years of their introduction on the Big Island. It is said that cattle first grazed in the Kaupo area in the early 1800's. (Kaupo Ranch continues to supply meat to local markets today.)

In 1806, Amaso Delano, a traveler of the time, recorded the story of one young bull in Lahaina who had apparently been transported to Maui to propagate a new herd. Delano commented that the bull "appeared to have disposition to do all the mischief he could, so much so that he was a pretty unwelcome guest …." The young fellow apparently wrecked gardens and sugar cane fields by tearing them to pieces with his horns and digging them up with his feet. He ran around, frightening the natives and generally created havoc.  (Perhaps the young bull was just too rambunctious to remain on the Big Island.)

According to another source, government lands in Wailuku were being leased for pasture by 1845 and five years later there were an estimated 3,500 cattle on the island. From 1893 until 1927, close to 1,600 brands were registered on Maui, representing operations throughout the island. Ranch sizes ranged from a few acres to the 80,000-acre Ulupalakua Ranch.

The central part of the island was eventually given over to sugar cane and to urbanization and commercial centers, but cattle still grazed on the slopes of Haleakala and the hillsides of the West Maui Mountains until the latter part of the twentieth century.

By then, soaring land values, the population pressures of urbanization, high labor costs and competition from imported beef crippled the established ranches and they diversified into real estate, tourism and other profitable ventures, or they faded. Many of the smaller ranches no longer exist. The 16,000-acre Grove Ranch, which once stretched from Haiku to Makawao, was liquidated in the 1960's, but two other large operations - the Hana Ranch and Ka'onoulu Ranch are still operating.

Historically, the three major ranches in upcountry Maui were Ulupalakua Ranch, begun in 1856 by Captain James Makee as "Rose Ranch"; the Baldwin family's Haleakala Ranch, which was founded in Makawao in 1888; and Ka'ono'ulu Ranch, which was founded by Maui senator Harold Rice.

Of the three, Ka'ono'ulu Ranch, which ran from the dry lands of Kihei up through Kula in its heyday and at one time even included pastures in the West Maui Mountains, is no longer the household name it was in the 1920's when it had a popular meat market in Wailuku. The ranch included over 30,000 acres and carried a 4,400-head herd at one time. It was a conglomeration of five older ranches: Robinson Ranch, Enos Ranch, Frank Correa Ranch, Freitas Ranch and Cornwall Ranch.

In West Maui, the Honolua Ranch above Lahaina was founded in 1880 and over time production shifted in and out of pineapple, sugar and other crops. In the 1920's', it covered about 16,000 acres and carried 800 head of cattle.

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Local Grinds

Banana/Mango Cream Squares

Ingredients:

Crust:

• 2 Cups all purpose flour
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 Blocks butter (melted)
  
  

• 6 Bananas
• 1 Mango
• 2 Boxes instant pudding
• 3 Cups cold milk
• 1 8oz bar cream cheese (soften)
• 1 8oz tub cool whip
  
  

Procedure:

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