Hawaii Five-0 Gone on the Road, Without Koa Wood Outrigger Canoes

Summary: Koa wood outrigger canoes would have been Hawaiian traditional water transport for Hawaii Five-0 2010 task force members in Gone on the Road Jan. 4, 2019.

model of koa wood outrigger canoe displayed in the East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii; June 9, 2009: W Nowicki, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Hawaiian proverb Hala i ke ala 'o'iole mai and the same-named Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode Jan. 4, 2019, apply to koa wood outrigger canoes and avenged assassinations.

Director Carl Weathers and writers Matt Wheeler and David Wolkove base Gone on the Road From Which There Is No Return upon an 'ōlelo a'o ("advice"). Season 9's 11th episode, series' 204th overall, clusters Junior Reigns (Beulah Koale), Catherine Rollins (Michelle Borth) and Danny Williams (Scott Caan) around Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin). Businessman Omar Hassan (Christian Rockford) dedicates himself covertly to deathly designs against six Navy SEALs (Sea, Air and Land Teams) dispatched to his terrorist father's domicile.

Mediterranean ferries and high-speed trains, private airplanes and private yachts enabled Omar's emigration from Marrakesh, Morocco, to Copenhagen, Denmark, after his father expired 17 years previously.

Air, land and water transport never frustrate Omar's finding McGarrett's friends Kieren Brewster, Tim Cole (Brad Beyer), Mark Howard, John Linehan and Joe White (Terry O'Quinn).

Only gauging clouds, rising and setting stars, seabirds, swells, waves and winds from Hawaiian traditional water transport got the first Hawaiian ancestors across the Pacific Ocean. The first Hawaiian ancestors honed the Hawaiian archipelago into their adopted homeland through major migrations some 750 to 3,500 years ago from East Asia and Polynesia. Double-hulled, double-rigged or single-hulled, single-rigged Asian, Polynesian and Hawaiian outrigger canoes insured innumerable Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Hawaiian archipelago recreational, sports, trade and travel itineraries.

The first Hawaiian ancestors judged koa ("bold," "brave," "fearless," "warrior") trees endemic to Hawai'i, Kaua'i, Lāna'i, Maui, Moloka'i and O'ahu as juggling buoyant, seaworthy, strong wood.

Koa wood outrigger canoes from Fabaceae bean, legume and pea family members known scientifically as Acacia (from Hebrew שטה, shittah, "thorny") koa still keep Hawaiians water-wise.

Five to 12 black-brown, oval 0.2- to 0.47-inch- (6- to 12-millimeter-) long, 0.16- to 0.28-inch- (4- to 7-millimeter-) wide seeds launch 50- to 150-year life cycles. Koa trees, mentioned scientifically by Asa Gray (Nov. 18, 1810-Jan. 30, 1888), maintain flattened, 25-year-dormant seeds within hard seed coats within immature green, mature black-brown-purple pods. Five- to 30-plus-year-old koa trees nurture bird-friendly, 2.9- to 12-inch- (7.5- to 30.48-centimeter-) long, 0.9- to 0.98-inch- (1.5- to 2.5-centimeter-) wide summer- and winter-fruiting, leguminous pods.

Koa trees offer bird-, insect-, wind-pollinated, clustered, cream-white or yellow, puff-shaped 0.375-inch (9.52-millimeter) flowers at branch ends or at phyllode (from Greek φυλλώδης, phullódēs, "leaf-like") bases.

Koa trees pair evergreen foliage the first six to nine months of leafy life cycles into 12 to 24 sets of divided, feathery, pea-like, twice compound leaflets.

Koa trees then queue up blade-like, gray-green, sickle-shaped, thick, vertically flattened 2.76- to 9.84-inch- (7- to 25-centimeter-) long, 0.19- to 0.98-inch- (0.5- to 2.5-centimeter-) wide phyllodes. They realize 49.21- to 164.04-foot (15- to 50-plus-meter) heights, 19.68- to 124.67-foot (6- to 38-meter) spreads and 19.68-foot (6-meter) diameters 4.5 feet (1.37 meters) above bases. They survive 50- to 100-inch (1,270- to 2,540-millimeter) rainfall minimums and 30- to 40-foot (9.14- to 12.19-meter) spacing at 80- to 7,000-foot (24.38- to 2,133.6-meter) elevations.

The first Hawaiian ancestors took one-way trips toward inter-island life with koa wood outrigger canoes even as millennia later McGarrett and Rollins typify more terminal tactics.

Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and Detective Danny "Danno" Williams (Scott Caan) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 11, Hala I Ke Ala 'O'iole Mai (Gone on the Road From Which There Is No Return): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9. 11 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Dec. 20, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

model of koa wood outrigger canoe displayed in the East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo, Hawaii; June 9, 2009: W Nowicki, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Hawaii_Cultural_Center_Canoe_Exhibit.jpg

Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Commander Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin) and Detective Danny "Danno" Williams (Scott Caan) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 11, Hala I Ke Ala 'O'iole Mai (Gone on the Road From Which There Is No Return): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9.11 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Dec. 20, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/12/hawaii-five-0-episode-911-hala-i-ke-ala.html

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