The Makauwahi Cave Trail, our beautiful nature trail winding through the 17 acres, has been self-guiding for a couple of years, with not-so-great metal mailboxes for dispensers.  Now also the cave itself is fully self-guiding, with its own brochure, and we have deployed a new generation of dispenser boxes.  Our lovely new Plexiglas brochure boxes arrived recently, and they are now up, mounted on (what we hope are) termite-proof posts.  The posts are galvanized metal set in concrete below ground, and beautiful dark-stained wood above.

So, reach inside and help yourself to a color brochure!  The new box located inside the North Cave, for instance, sports the brochure that tells you all about the cave’s history, geological features, and biology – all the stuff our dedicated docents relate to hundreds of visitors on Sundays.  This means that those who show up some other day when the cave is open can also have a tour — that they give themselves!

Mahalo to the Hawai`i Tourism Authority, Natural Resources Program, for making this big improvement in our interpretive program possible.