Chapter 7
On the southern shore of Oahu, further east and south than Honolulu and Waikiki, Diamond Head’s saucer-shaped slopes rise hundreds of feet and encircle almost five hundred acres. The highest point of the jagged tuff cone, Le’Ahi Peak, elevates more than seven hundred and sixty feet, and, depending on the angle, gives the illusion of a crown tilted mightily to reach for the sea or the sky.
Pari Malik, expecting they are going to park near the base of the mountain and hike up an exterior slope, is startled when Abby Goodwin drives through the Kahala Tunnel passageway, cut through a ridge on the northeastern side, leading them directly into the interior valley of the mountain bowl. This flat valley of Diamond Head State Monument is alive with grass, brush, trees, birds, trails,
