Chapter 9In the opposite direction, following Kuamo'o Road inland and west past the subdivision, a good walking clip led to the Keahua Arboretum with hiking and horse trails offering spectacular views of mountainous terrain.
The Arboretum, like the forest, contained magnificent specimen trees, tropical flowers, and picnic pavilions with play areas. In order to get to the larger rear parking lot, cars traversed a ground level concrete bridge over which a stream constantly flowed. Well past the Arboretum, deep in a forested valley, Kevin Costner filmed scenes from his movie Dragonfly. The forest was made thick and dense by the overgrowth of Hau trees, a clambering tree of the Hibiscus family. With thickets like that, a person could easily wander from the Arboretum and into the forest and be
