Removing wall was good call
Work crews, and the city officials who direct them, this week came to terms with the reality of Oahu shorelines: The ocean will have its way, in the end.
Specifically, efforts to step the migration of sand away from parts of Kailua Beach have come to a fruitless end as erosion exposed a hollow-tile wall the city built back in the 1970s, ostensibly to hold the sand in place.
Protruding, rusting rebar has made that attempt not only a failure but dangerous, to boot. Children were frolicking on it over the July 4 holiday weekend, so the city figured time was running out for avoiding liability.
"It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature."
Wasn’t that an advertising catch phrase back in the ’70s? Guess it happens to be true, too.
These visitors we could do without
"Now what?" must be the question of the day at the state Department of Agriculture.
On Monday, an opossum (pictured), a sugar glider possum and a snake arrived uninvited on Oahu.
This latest invasion of unwelcome species comes after a dozen illegal reptiles turned up in the islands in a two-week span.
This sort of thing could get ridiculously out of hand.
Actually, it already has.
The Humane Society of the United States plans to ship 100 wild donkeys from the Big Island to California, according to KITV News.
