My Aumakua
(A Hawaiian protective spirit)
The Bar:
I walked down the waterfront street admiring all the trees, flowers, sights and smells but mostly enjoying the warm level ground. All the little things one misses while recuperating in the hospital after a tragic event. Everyone else walks right over and past all of these things without noticing any of the details. I’m sure I will again one day too, although I swore I never would. I spotted the sign for a pub just down the street that I have never been in and decided a cold beer would definitely hit the spot.
Hard to believe I found my way to this place after all I had been through. Like all other drugs, I guess I wanted to find that feeling again. That feeling of excitement I once felt as a child when I would walk along the occasionally rotten planks at the marina with my father. The smell of salt, sweat, and dead fish mixed together with dreams and yarns creating one thick bowl of chowder. We would dream of what we would do with each boat
My Aumakua Description:
Everyone will lose a loved one in their lifetime and most will find any way they can to cope with that loss. On a typically beautiful Hawaiian day, two unlikely best friends, Kalani and Billy, decided to sail to Kauai for a wild and adventure filled weekend with their girlfriends. The trip began smooth enough and the weekend was the most memorable adventure any of them had at this point in their lives.
On the return trip however disaster struck in the form of a concentrated sea storm which sunk the boat leaving but one survivor. Alone, but not, in the Pacific Ocean, visitors appeared in the form of a beautiful Green Sea Turtle, a Red Footed Boobie bird and lastly by an Oceanic White Tip shark. “My Aumakua” is a wonderful adventure through life, love, friendship, loss and the beauty of the Hawaiian culture and spirit.
Jason Olson started this project while he was in the Army, stationed in Hawaii over a 10-year period. He found that the Hawaiian culture was one he could not only relate to but felt that in so many facets of life, they had it right. The Hawaiians believe in family first, community second and the list of lesser importance goes on from there. He has been an avid surfer, sailor, scuba dive master and all around adventure junkie for the majority of his life.
