The latest issue of Outside Magazine features 50 American “Great Escape” getaways. The focus? Places in our U.S. so far removed from typical vacationers itineraries, Starbucks wouldn’t consider setting up shop. A couple of Hawaii spots are highlighted: Peaceful Cove Cottage on Hawaii’s Big Island and Milolii Beach on Kauai. The Na Pali coast doesn’t […]
If you’re a museum junkie, make your Saturday plans now. Will it be a morning immersed in Hawaiian history and culture at Bishop Museum, or an afternoon at the Hawaii State Art Museum perusing the works of the Islands’ best artists? How about both … free of charge? And perhaps another museum, if you can
Forget those volatile stocks and bonds. How about putting your dollars into something with real roots, poised for growth? The Big Island’s Mauna Lani Resort and non-profit group True Offsets are offering the opportunity to buy a tree sapling for $37 and plant it in Hamakua. It’s all part of a new ecological restoration project
Wheel of Fortune is in Hawaii. So are its celebrity hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White. After watching Wheel of Fortune for many years, I finally had a chance to hang out with Pat and Vanna at the Hilton Waikoloa Villageon Hawaii’s Big Island. In fact, I’m posting this article from the resort’s Malolo LoungeAmerica’s
A lava lake is bubbling under the surface of Kilauea volcano’s summit. Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on Hawaii’s Big Island discovered the lake yesterday during a routine flyby over the summit’s active Halemaumau crater vent. It was the first time they had seen such activity at the vent since it opened up with
Kilauea volcano fanatics will want to check out the video below geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory recently posted of the familiar Halemaumau crater steam plume. The time-lapse video, shot over a six-minute period on August 20, shows what happens when the normally white plume—mostly made up of steam and colorless sulfur-dioxide gas—suddenly mixes with
On the Big Island this weekend? Waikoloa Beach Resort’s new outdoor entertainment venue, The Waikoloa Bowl at Queens’ Gardens, opens Aug. 30, with a performance by Earth, Wind & Fire. The appearance by the Grammy award-winning ‘70s musical group—famous for chart-topping hits such as “September” and “Shining Star”—also inaugurates the resort’s Waikoloa Nights’ concert series
January 2, 2009. That’s when the long-shuttered Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii’s Big Island will reopen. Reservations are being taken now. The 43-year-old luxury resort shut down in October 2006 after an earthquake caused extensive structural damage and safety concerns. More than $150 million has since been poured into the venerable Kohala Coast resort’s
Here in the Islands, we don’t get “goose bumps” when we experience strong emotions about something. We get “chicken skin.” Want to get some totally Hawaiian-style chicken skin? Go to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and watch hula performed on a stone and earth mound surrounded by native forest, while behind you a volcanic crater sends
For our first Hidden Hawaii photo essay (in HAWAII’s July/August 2008 issue), our photographer David Croxford and editor John Heckathorn visited North Kohala on Hawaii’s Big Island. Their goal? To show off the peninsula’s once shuttered, now newly vibrant plantation towns—Hawi and Kapa’au—and breathtaking Pololu Valley lookout. It’s an area seldom seen by visitors. They
Big fish, no? The Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament is on this week in the waters off Kailua-Kona on Hawaii’s Big Island. It’s the 49th annual running of the tournament, which bills itself as “the granddaddy of all big game fishing tournaments.” More than two dozen fishing teams from around the world head out into the
Kilauea volcano is still the best show on Hawaii’s Big Island even if it has been sort of business-as-usual the last couple of weeks. A few small temblors at the summit. Halemaumau’s steam and ash plume. Molten magma from downslope Pu’u O’o vent meeting chilly ocean off the Puna coastline. What to do? Catch up
