b'C H A P T E R 1 | O R I G I N SFROM L AVA TO LU X U RYn the heart of Waikoloa Beach Resort are hints of history, glimpses into a time long past. Entwined with spectacular resort hotels and condos, active shop-ping centers, world-class golf courses lined with palm trees, there are thoughts and pictures carved into petroglyph fields, historic trails, ancient fishponds, tide-pools, and ocean whispers from those who came before.The stewards of this land have been many,divisionfamilies came to form small fishing since human inhabitants first came in the ninthcommunities. century, each doing what they could to take careThe residents of the area cultivated existing of their environment and make a life for them- saltwater ponds into successful aquaculture in the selves. Today, Waikoloa Beach Resort is proudprotected waters, particularly the largest ponds, of its kuleana (responsibility) for these treasuredKahapapa and Ku`uali`i. They may have also pieces of Hawai`is history and culture, to sharemade salt in carved lava bowls near the ocean, them and preserve them for generations to come.and likely traded with upland neighbors.InthedaysofKamehameha,theresidents T H E F I R S T S T E W A R D S probably paid their dues to the kings by collecting It began in about AD800, when along the rug- and drying quantities of fish to be sent to the kings ged lava shoreline at `Anaeho`omalua smallhouseholds during their periodic visits and under portion of the vast Waikoloa Ahupua`a landannual Makahiki, the ancient system of taxation. 2 3'