Kualoa Ranch Oahu Ceramic Art Tile
— — the valley the wind keeps rinsing green.
Not only on a wall.
“The valley made famous by Jurassic Park is real and the cattle still cross it. Kualoa is a working ranch and ancient ahupuaʻa on the windward coast of Oahu, where the Koʻolau range stands up in vertical green walls right to the road. Mokoliʻi sits a short way offshore, the small basalt islet you see from every road bend. The trade winds pull the rain across the ridges by mid-morning. Tour buses cross the pasture; the cattle don't look up.
Kualoa Ranch Oahu Ceramic Art Tile, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
Kualoa Ranch covers about 4,000 acres on the windward coast of Oahu, spanning three traditional Hawaiian ahupuaʻa, Hakipuʻu, Kaʻaʻawa, and Kualoa, between the Koʻolau range and the sea. The land has belonged to the Morgan family since 1850, when Dr. Gerritt P. Judd purchased it from King Kamehameha III, and six generations later it still runs as a working cattle ranch and private nature reserve. It is reached only by Kamehameha Highway from Kāneʻohe, about 24 miles north of Honolulu. In old Hawaiʻi the Kualoa shore was one of the most sacred places on Oʻahu, where the children of high chiefs were raised.
The Koʻolau range above the ranch is the eroded eastern remnant of a shield volcano whose main shield-building phase ran from roughly 3 to 2 million years ago. The ridge climbs to Puʻu Kānehoalani above 2,000 feet, and the cliffs here weather in vertical green pillars that have stood in for primeval jungle in films including Jurassic Park (1993), Kong: Skull Island, and Godzilla. Just offshore, Mokoliʻi rises about 206 feet from a shallow reef roughly a third of a mile from the beach at Kualoa Regional Park, a basalt cone left by the same erosion that carved the windward cliffs.
The interior of the ranch is reached by guided tour only: buses, ATVs, horses, ziplines, and a small boat on the bay. Tour menus center on the Kaʻaʻawa Valley, often called the Jurassic Valley, the World War II bunker now run as a movie-prop hangar, and the ancient Molii fishpond on Kāneʻohe Bay. Tours depart every day of the year from a check-in lot off Kamehameha Highway, with most departures between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. The windward side gets more rain than Honolulu; November through March is the wetter half of the year.