Kilohana Clydesdales leaving Kauai
Aloha,
If you have ever enjoyed or wish you had enjoyed a carriage ride at Kilohana Plantation, your opportunity to have this experience ends on December 1st. Per the November 9th Garden Island Newspaper, “On December 1st, the horse-drawn livery service will give rides to its last few customers and then closeup shop for good. On December 27th the horses will be shipped on a Young Bros. barge to Honolulu, and from there fly nine hours on a Fed Ex plane to their new home with Doug Albrecht (the owner of Plantation Carriages at Kilohana Plantation Estate) at their side. The Albrechts and their horses will be leaving for Belleville, Texas, a small town roughly 60 miles northwest of Houston. There, Doug will act as general manager on a privately owned “pleasure ranch.”
Although I’ve never had the pleasure of a Kilohana carriage ride, I’ve always admired the beautiful Clydsdales grazing peacefully in the field as I drove past Kilohana Plantation Estate. According to the general manager, there will still be horses on the Plantation. Also, if you plan to be on Island for Thanksgiving, “a free carriage ride will be offered from noon to 6 PM with the price of the Gaylord’s Thanksgiving Dinner, as much as space allows,” per the newspaper. You can call Gaylord’s at 808 245 9593 for reservations.
I’ve been on this Island for 27 years – the horses have been here for 22. I’ll miss seeing them…
Aloha Elaine
This is my Arabian “Bics.” (Short for Bey Orobics. If you saw her trot you’d know about the Orobics part.)
Elaine Schaefer (R, GRI, ABR)
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November 12th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
How sad! The wagon rides at Parker Ranch on the Big Island also closed down this year, although the horses and their owner Isaac still live here in North Kohala. In fact, I recently moved MY arabs to a new pasture and asked Isaac if he’d mind hauling. We stopped traffic up and down Akona Pule highway at the sight of two refined Arabian heads poking out of a trailer reading “Belgian draft horses”!