Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii V - Kualoa Ranch
We visited Kualoa Ranch which is on the windward side of Oahu (instead of referring to the eastern or western sides of the island, people refer to them as windward and leeward). This is a working cattle ranch with about 400 head of cattle (there was even one cow that was struggling trying to give birth to a calf…yikes!). It also has some stunning mountains and has been used over the years to shoot parts of several television shows and movies including Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, Windtalkers, 50 First Dates, A Very Brady Sequel, Godzilla, Mighty Joe Young, Magnum P.I., and LOST.
After the attack by Japan in 1941 the military built several concrete pillboxes and at least one bunker. After the war the ranch was returned to the owners.
Stephen & Josiah
A real horse.
Pillboxes built during World War II.
A bunker built by the military and also used for a shot in the movie Pearl Harbor.
Various movie stuff inside the bunker representing different movies that have been filmed (at least partially) at the ranch.
Our tour guide said that the filming of LOST had completed the day before and he had witness a submarine being blown up (that might be part of the season finale). I don’t think that was being filmed at the ranch but there’s a little “sneak peak” into what is to come (assuming our tour guide was correct).
Godzilla’s footprints - in the movie these were very deep (10 feet deep or something) but this is a working cattle ranch and that was too deep to be safe for the cattle so they filled them in most of the way.
Footprint
Kids running down a hill.
One of these houses was supposedly the one that was Mr. Mayagi’s house in one of the Karate Kid movies.
This is the cave that Bobby got lost in or something in A Very Brady Sequel.
At some point during Mighty Joe Young (maybe during the credits) they show two kissing gorilla heads in the mountain. The below is a picture of those kissing gorilla heads.
Cattle
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