Nearing the ripe old age of two million, Molokai has a surface area of 673 square kilometres and is the fifth largest island in the archipelago.

A long time ago, scraggly paths led Hawaiians to these remote valleys, the first to be populated. Today, only a handful of hunters and hikers make their way here. The flatter southern coast, shielded by a barrier reef, is where elders created the greatest number of fishponds in the archipelago.

For a long time, Molokai’s powerful kahuna protected the island form the territorial ambitions of chiefs on neighbouring islands, but on one fateful day in 1795, Kamehameha on his way to conquer Oahu, took control of the island.