Lost in Hawaii

The popular television program, Lost, is filmed in Hawaii. Last week we saw the film crew in action in the Diamond Head crater.

I was driving my visiting grandmother to Diamond Head for a quick look at the mountain she wants to scale at age 98, when we came across a road block immediately after leaving the tunnel. A young man carrying a walkie-talkie asked if we would wait awhile as the show was being filmed.

I asked, “How long is awhile?”

He answered, “Well, they’re aiming the cameras in this direction and it wouldn’t be good for the scene if cars were running back and forth during the filming.”

As a good citizen of Hawaii I found the logic hard to argue against, and wanted to do my part to see the show continue to succeed.

“How long is awhile?” came my follow up question, hoping it would be long enough to divert grandma’s attention and desire to climb to the top of Diamond Head.

“45 seconds to a minute,” came the sheepish reply. A few moments later I heard a squawk of gibberish on his walkie-talkie and he waved us through. As we drove forward, grandma talked about the television show, and wondered if the camera would get a shot of her waving to the stars on the set.

Her eyes scanned the bushes around the movie complex for signs of life, and she completely forgot about the climb to Diamond Head’s summit.

The movie set area of Diamond Head had a number of booms, those lifts with long arms pointing toward the sky. Each had a water hose which sprayed the rain you’ll see on an upcoming Lost episode.

Yes, it rains in Hawaii. What rain you see on television shows from Hawaii is probably from a water hose.