2004 Hedo Pics!

7 Jul

July 7, 2004July 18, 2018 Mojo

This was the year of our birth! And it was a messy birth! The land was a polluted junkyard. Rusting machinery and vehicles were strewn everywhere and often covered by jungle vegetation. The more we cleared, the more junk we saw. After 7 truckloads of trash from the crater and removing 18 junk vehicles, we began to change it slowly over to a more gentle ecofriendly place! And we ended the year with a wedding!

Land Purchase Day Deed Property — The day we purchased the property

The humble beginnings of our eco feminist community — The way the land looked before it was Hedonisia!

Hawaiian antique old farming equipment — The previous owner’s left behind opala.

The driveway to our Hawaiian dream — Our driveway to paradise in its first iteration

Hawaii jungle opala junkyard trash to treasure renaissance resurrection — More opala from the previous owner!

Car part left to to rot in the Hawaiian jungle — We cleaned up trash like this to create an island paradise!

From Junkyard to Eco Hostel — The lower level of the junkyard that became Hedonisia

Jungle Community Crater Trail — We would eventually turn this garbage trail left by the previous owner into a walkable path into the crater

driveway entrance jungle path, hawaiian neighborhood, eco hostel — The path into our jungle hideaway when we first moved in

This is the way our barn looked before it had a mural on the side — The Pre-Mural Barn Entrance

Today this is the path that goes by our compost area — Structures yet to come: The bathroom, recycling area, smoking temple, compost area and Bamboo Hut.

These cars were laying around the junkyard that we turned into an eco community — Cars left behind by the previous owner

Hedonisia's Original Jungle Hideaway — Jungle Cottage in Its Original State

Junk left on the lanai by the original owner

Our original front porch as Hedonisia — Jungle Cottage, perched on the edge of our very own black lava rock crater!

The rim of Hedonisia's crater — The side of the crater before we built it up

The previous owner's trash became our treasure — We inherited these items on the lanai, some of which we still use today!

The original facade of Jungle Cottage — That’s our current chicken coop to the right

The front porch with a jungle gym we bought at auction — Our jungle gym the first year we lived in Jungle Cottage

Yoga Barn from up above — View of Yoga Barn from Ocean View

The Yoga Barn when we first got the property — The Yoga Barn before it had the Haka Hou Mana Mana

The original path going from the crater up to Ocean View — Missing: the bathroom, Smoking Temple, and toolshed

Our eco-community's Yoga Barn in its original form — Our Yoga Barn before we painted it!

Bamboo Hut was our first addition to our eco lodgings portfolio. — The first structure we built on the property

Idyllic childhood in Hawaii — The Jungle Cottage Office, with Althea in the doorway

Our eco community's first outdoor jungle shower — We built our first shower on the side of what would become Yoga Barn

In our first years, Hedonisians camped in the Yoga Barn! — Barn Tents; Original Community Lodgings!

Bamboo Hut with its outdoor shower — Our first accommodation, with some pieces of junk we weren’t able to move yet

The heart of the community today was part of the driveway of yesterday

Looking towards the street from Bamboo Hut — From Bamboo Hut, looking towards Hinalo St.

Dad was in town for our Puna, Hawaii, wedding — Mojo’s father playing the tabla drums in front of the Jungle Cottage.

Outside the Yoga Barn on wedding day! — Walk like a Mogyptian!

Enjoying coconuts from our property in Puna, Hawaii — Putting da lime in da coconut

Leah in her wedding dress in front of Yoga Barn

The wedding family in their first year on the property! — Leah, Althea and Mojo on the wedding day

A person standing in the crater on Hedonisia — Someone waving from down in Puka

Mojo and an early exploration crew into the puka — The earliest trail into puka

Hedonisia's own puka crater in Hawai'i — Clay climbing out of puka on Hedonisia

Posing in front of the cinder rim of the crater — Althea, Leah and Mojo on their wedding day

The people who lived across the street in our Hawaiian neighborhood — Our former neighbors across the street

Hawaiian bamboo on our truck — Moving bamboo in the early days of Hedonisia

Mojo and Leah walking down the isle in their jungle wedding — Mojo and Leah on their wedding day

Mojo and Leah take their vows on the property in Puna — Mojo and Leah’s wedding vows

The wedding family in the early days of Hedonisia Hawaii — Althea, Leah and Mojo

Leah and Mojo's vows in the current Hangout Area of the Yoga Barn — Leah, Mojo and Clay on the wedding day.

Photo opp for the new couple — Mojo, Althea and Leah in the front of Hedonisia

The happy couple looks into each other's eyes — Mojo and Leah on their wedding day

Wedding cars at Hedonisia — Mojo and Leah in front of Hedonisia with the wedding retinue’s cars parked behind

Daughter and father in law share a moment — Mojo smiles as Leah and Adil share a moment

Newlyweds in front of the walking palm in front of Hedonisia — The young Punatic couple with the father of the groom

Clothes dry on the clothesline on the couples' wedding day — The bride and father of the groom outside the newlyweds’ home

Hawaiian wedding couple walk with retinue — Leah and Mojo perform a traditional wedding walk

Wedding couple poses with their friends — The wedding couple and best friends

Married in Hedonisia in Hawaii! — Mojo and Leah’s wedding kiss

Leah and Mojo's wedding tent — Wedding retinue gathered for ceremony

Missing: The Kahuna Cabin — Mojo helping build Bamboo Hut

Outside Hedonisia's Hangout Area in the old days — The site that would become Hedonisia’s recycling zone

Puna jungle pig foraging in front of Jungle Cottage — Hawaiian pig in Hedonisia’s driveway

Mojo's old Ford F-150 at his barn in the Hawaiian jungle — Looking towards the street from within the Hedonisia property.

The entrance to puka in Hedonisia's early days — The original state of puka when Hedonisia was bought

The original Hedonisia bathroom, on the slope near the future site of Kahuna Cabin — View to the hill where we built Kahuna Cabin at Hedonisia

Our Hawaiian hale building spot — The site for Kahuna Cabin before construction

Leah outside Jungle Cottage on Hedonisia's rainforest crater — Leah near the edge of the crater by Jungle Cottage

Mojo and Althea in downtown Hilo — Downtown Hilo with baby Althea

Mojo standing near the edge of the crater — Mojo posing outside Jungle Cottage near the crater

Hedonisia's Yoga Barn without plants — The Yoga Barn at Hedonisia before we made it green with plants

Mojo’s Ford F150 in the driveway at Hedonisia

The future site of Hedonisia's solar shower and eco toilet — The original site for the eco toilet at Hedonisia

Althea sitting on the concrete pad behind Yoga Barn — Yoga Barn with crater in the background

Althea overseeing work on Bamboo Hut — Construction of the frame of Bamboo Hut

Bamboo hut's future site on the edge of the old parking lot — The original site of Bamboo Hut

Bamboo Hut Construction — Althea & Clay during construction of Bamboo Hut

Young Althea working on the property in the early days

Mojo's F150 on his property in Hawaii — Althea playing with a broom on her parents’ Hawaiian paradise

Hawaiian hammock family — Mojo and Althea relaxing outside Jungle Cottage

Corner of Hinalo and Pohoiki in Puna, Hawaii — Mojo with Althea at the corner of Hinalo and Pohoiki in 2004

Ohia pillars outside the Jungle Cottage — Our dirty Jungle Cottage that we transformed into a studio in paradise

The original chicken coop outside of Jungle Cottage

Jungle Cottage in the early days — View of Jungle Cottage from the street

The original entrance to Hedonisia Hawaii — Jungle Cottage with its chicken coop from the early days

Hedonisia's humble beginning was as a junkyard — Trash in the driveway left by the former owner

Hedonisia's rainforest crater in Puna, Hawaii — The father of the bride inspects the volcanic crater!

Jungle Cottage with the crater slope behind it

Jungle Cottage and the family of the bride — Leah and her family pose outside Jungle Cottage

Volcano Crater Side View — Hedo Crater Side View

Baby playing in Hawaiian rainforest — Driveway at Hedonisia

Enjoying being a baby in Hawaii — Althea playing in the property driveway

Old machinery left around the property outside of Bamboo Hut

In 2018, Hedonisia Hawaii was destroyed in the Kilauea volcano eruption.

We have preserved the Hedonisia Pre-Volcano Archive which shows our community as it existed before the eruption.

Until we can return to our original property, we offer two options for those who wish to volunteer in exchange for a discounted stay in Hawaii.

1. Hedonisia Guava Land. We are offering camping accommodations at our other property with a beautiful guava forest where we are also building a sustainable eco-friendly tiny home. Close to Kehena Beach and Kalapana.

2. Kamaili Forest Farm. A long-time friend started a farm nearby offering volunteer and guest stays at rustic lodgings.

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