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[edit] Tourism
I am generally of a mind to simply delete the material on this page about tourist attractions on Kaua'i as not encyclopedic, even while mindful that most Wikipedians have that as their only experience with the Hawaiian Islands. However, I note there are pages on Tourism, so I've created a Tourism in Hawaii for this sort of thing and moved it there. Look at Tourism in Hawaii#Kauai. Marshman 08:22, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Touring Five Regions
I think this material recently added is appropriate for WikiTravel or the article on Tourism on Kauai - Marshman 17:42, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Reverting Photo Pages
I'm unclear why you are reverting the addition of external links to photo pages. These appear not to be commercial in nature. There is no general rule that external links are to be removed, unless they are commercial in nature. Please explain? - Marshman 01:21, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
Kaua'i, I think, is generally erroneously assumed to rhyme with Hawai'i outside of the island, and I think the Cow-eye pronounciation is simply a pidgin version of a Hawai'ian word. --Stormj 17:57, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- So what do you suggest is the correct pronunciation? - Marshman 18:13, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
- The correct pronunciation is 3 syllables, like this "Cow-a-ee". In Hawaiian, the apostrophe produces a glottal stop, which splits the "ai" diphthong into two syllables, as it does in Hawai'i, which is also 3 syllables. The "au" is already a diphthong so it doesn't need the apostrophe to separate it from the next "a". I think I have a book on this somewhere which I actually bought in Kapa'a in 1997. Slowmover 16:54, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] History
The text linking the widespread prevalence of chickens to the 1992 hurricane strikes me as odd, because I observed chickens roaming free when I visited the island in 1984. In fact, I was awakened by the crowing of roosters each of the 5 mornings I spent there. One of the explanations I was given at the time for free-ranging 'domestic' animals was that 19th century sailors made a practice of setting mating groups of animals loose on islands, in hopes that on a later voyage, they would find the animals had multiplied, providing a local source of meat for the returning seamen.Okie Born 18:19, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps both accounts are correct. I've searched around and it seems that chickens were often kept in backyards before the hurricane (probably holdover generations) and inevitably some got out and reproduced. However it appears that it is a fact that all the chicken farms on the island were destroyed during Iniki, which made them so abundant as they are today. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jgladding (talk • contribs) 20:06, 15 March 2007 (UTC).
