Choose from several breath taking tours of Hawaii Island Join us for an unforgettable flight. For maximum viewing, comfort and safety, we fly the ASTAR helicopter equipped with BoseX® stereo headsets. Safari Helicopters is family owned and Ooperated. Founded in 1987 by Preston Myers, a retired Navy commander US Navy Reserves. Preston has built a reputable company, well known for it’s innovations such as being the first to fly an air-conditioned ASTAR helicopter, high visibility windows, multiple cameras to record a video of the passengers actual tour, and two way communications between pilot and passengers. FAA and part 134 certified. H E L I C O P T E R S SAVE with a direct reservation 969-1259 Toll Free-1-800-326-3356 www.safarihelicopters.com 4 • April 17, 2016 SACRED From page 3 Early park guide Alec Lancaster. See SACRED Page 6 Steamship Co. took visitors on an ocean cruise, stopping first at Kawaihae, then sailing along the Kohala and Hamakua coasts to Hilo, finally docking at the small port of Keauhou, south of Kilauea. From there, it was a 15-mile trip on horseback or horse-drawn carriage to the crater. A second option was to sail with the Inter-Island Co. from Honolulu, along the Kona and Ka‘u coasts, docking at Punaluu. Visitors could stay overnight at Punaluu before traveling by a plantation railroad to Pahala and then the remaining 20 miles to the volcano on a road via carriage. The popularity of the volcano and a desire to ensure it was accessible to everyone spurred citizens to lobby Congress for the establishment of a national park. The first written promotion of this idea came in 1903. William R. Castle, a lawyer and financier from Honolulu, wrote in the Volcano House register, “The time has come when the United States Government might well reserve the whole region from Mokuaweoweo (the summit crater on Mauna Loa) to the sea in Puna.” This was followed three years later by a quote in the weekly Hilo Tribune of writer Edyth Tozier Weatherred visiting with the Portland Daily Journal who “expressed the opinion that the Volcano should be made a national park.” Between 1907 and 1909, members of Congress and other federal officials (including Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield) visited Hawaii and were escorted around Kilauea by businessman and politician Lorrin A. Thurston, who led the push for the creation of a park. Support also came from local government officials. Gov. Walter R. Frear endorsed the idea in
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