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Searching for Frogs in Celebrity Trees on Banyan Drive in Hilo
In the 1930s, celebrities, politicians, and other notables began planting banyan trees along Hilo’s Waiakea Peninsula. Despite sustaining damage from tsunamis, many of the massive, ropey-trunked trees still stand, marked by placards or wooden signs bearing the notables’ names. Staying at a hotel on Banyan Drive, you come across the signs at night in the yellow light of the streetlamp and look for familiar names as if you were trying to find a favorite star along Hollywood Boulevard: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, Cecil B. DeMille…After awhile, though, the whistles of coqui frogs, louder than any police siren in Hollywood, distracts you, and your aim becomes something else entirely: trying to see if you can spot even just one of these tiny, incredibly elusive frogs.
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