High levels of sulfur dioxide from Kilauea eruptions forced the closure of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park this afternoon. The closure arrives hours after Hawaii County Civil Defense officials advised residents near the summit of Kilauea volcano to prepare for evacuation to escape winds carrying noxious sulfur dioxide fumes. The fumes are emanating from eruptions at […]
The Hawaii Superferry’s back. The ferry resumed interisland service today between Oahu and Maui—departing at 6:30 a.m. from Honolulu to Kahului, and returning at 11:15 a.m. from Kahului to Honolulu. A one-way trip between islands takes about four hours. Passenger fares one-way are $39, and $55 for passenger vehicles. Reservations may be made at the
Alaska Airlines is stepping into the void left by the departure of ATA and Aloha Airlines. It will add a daily flight between Seattle and Kahului, Maui, to its Hawaii flight schedule beginning July 17. From Oct. 31 through April 25, 2009, there will also be a flight from Anchorage to Maui, twice a week.
Congratulations to Kalimakuhilani Akemi Kalamanamana Suganuma! Kalima to her friends, we’re guessing. Suganuma won the 2008 Miss Aloha Hula title at yesterday’s opening evening of Merrie Monarch Festival competition on the Big Island. In a tiebreaker. Two dances were required of competitors last night—a hula auana, or modern dance; and a hula kahiko, or traditional
There are few things more satisfying here than a Sunday afternoon—perhaps one on a favorite beach, watching the surf, catching up with thoughts. What’s the perfect soundtrack? Each Sunday, Hawaii Public Radio station KIPO-FM 89.3 provides three hours of the best in Hawaiian music. It’s “Kanikapila Sunday.” Though we’re sure you’d much rather be on
Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has great new Kilauea photos here. But we have one of our own. Taken by Donna and Stephen O’Meara, it shows incandescent fragments of rock shooting out of the Halemaumau crater vent on Kilauea’s summit. HVO geologists say most of the fragments fell back into the vent, whose now familiar plume is
ATA Airlines announced late Wednesday, Hawaii time, that it was shutting down nationwide passenger service. The airline had Hawaii routes from Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island to Los Angeles, Oakland, Las Vegas and Phoenix. If you are holding tickets for ATA flights, you can contact other airlines here. If you would like a
Mahalo to our friends Donna and Stephen O’Meara for these Halemaumau images, from the just reopened Thomas A. Jaggar Museum lookout. The shots were taken this afternoon. Regular HawaiiMagazine.com visitors know the O’Meara’s from previous posts. The couple are globetrotting volcano watchers and photographers, who live in Volcano Village near Kilauea’s summit. The first photo
Ever wonder how scientists at Hawaiian Volcano Observatory set up the cameras that peer into the active lava vents at Kilauea? Apparently, they just walk right up to the edge and put ‘em there! In the first photo here, taken yesterday, an HVO geologist checks up on a time-lapse camera peering down into the Halemaumau
A walk into the maw of the Thurston Lava Tube at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is always exciting. No matter how many times one does it. Having grown up on the Big Island, I’ve been through it a couple dozen times. Several hundred years ago a large eruption near the summit of Kilauea created this
The Merrie Monarch Hula Festival—for many practitioners, the World Series of hula—opened on the Big Island this weekend. Hula troupes from around the state and worldwide are still arriving daily in Hilo, to compete. Yesterday, Hilo’s Civic Auditorium saw the festival’s traditional opening hoolaulea (celebration). But yesterday afternoon, our friends at Kilauea, photographers Stephen and
Wish you were here? Can’t blame you. Here’s almost the next best thing. We’ve collected links to a handful of Webcams around the state offering live views of our beaches and—well, pretty much just our beaches. Want to see the sun set over Hanalei Bay on Kauai? Click the Sheraton Princeville’s beach-roving camera below. Got
