This isn’t your father’s round of eighteen. Unless, of course, your dad happens to be a billionaire. The posh Four Seasons Resort Hualalai on the Big Island is offering the Unlimited Golf Package for those who love golf and those who have the bucks to spend on it. But is the deal worth it? You […]
With all of the recent showy eruptive activity at Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, we’ve been asked by more than a few of you where the best place is to view the current lava flow. The view from a helicopter or airplane tour flight over remote Pu’u O’o vent—the only vent on Kilauea’s slopes
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Our world-famous volcano-watching friends Steven and Donna O’Meara just sent this breathtaking new photo from their recent Kilauea volcano adventures for HawaiiMagazine.com readers. Donna called it, “by far, the most majestic image I have ever taken in 24 years. … I always knew Kilauea was a world-class volcano and now she’s proving it. … This
When you’re named one of the best in the entire world, you must be something special. And, in this case, we agree. Travel + Leisure Magazine’s 2008 World’s Best Awards were recently announced, and six Hawaii hotels were featured on the annual readers’ survey. T +L readers gave their views on everything from best rental
This is what happens when some of the newest land on Earth suddenly splits off and falls into to the ocean. Volcano watchers Steven and Donna O’Meara were at the Puna coastline last week when at least 3 large benches of freshly hardened lava collapsed into the Pacific. The collapses occurred over four hours on
The photos are real—Hawaii surfer C.J. Kanuha paddling to within 20 feet of Kilauea volcano lava entering the ocean off the Big Island’s Puna coastline. The water is boiling hot—almost 400 degrees F. It burned Kanuha’s feet, peeled his skin, and melted the wax on his surfboard. The shots—by photographer Kirk Lee Aeder, from a
It’s a bit quieter this morning at Kilauea volcano. Or at least business as usual again. But our friends on Hawaii’s Big Island, volcano watchers Steve and Donna O’Meara, are always at work—trudging out to wherever the action is and documenting it with their cameras. They’ve been especially busy the last few days, with Kilauea
Earthquakes, explosions and lava fountains! Oh, my! After a couple of business-as-usual months at Kilauea—steam and ash plumes at the summit, lava flowing into the sea—the volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island is showboating again. Just after midnight this morning, a couple of “small explosion-like” quakes rocked the summit area of Halemaumau crater vent, according to
Before letting the Fourth of July go until next year, we couldn’t resist sharing a report from our man on the slopes of Kilauea volcano, Bill Harby, on Independence Day celebrations at Volcano Village this weekend. The 4th of July in Volcano Village is always a Hawaii-style hootenanny. The main events are an annual parade
HawaiiMagazine.com reader Ashley Rath, halfway around the world in Hertfordshire, England, made my morning. Ashley wrote: Aloha Derek! The slideshow you posted this weekend of John Heckathorn’s and David Croxford’s visit to Hawi on Hawaii’s Big Island was, in a word, gorgeous. It was just what I needed on yet another rainy Saturday afternoon in
For our July/August 2008 issue, photographer David Croxford and I took a trip to North Kohala, a seldom-visited peninsula that sticks up like a green thumb at the top of the Big Island of Hawaii. The little plantation towns of the peninsula—Hawi and Kapaau—almost disappeared two decades ago. Their buildings were shuttered and decaying, but
We knew our favorite Kilauea Volcano watchers Steve and Donna O’Meara were world famous in their field. Now National Geographic readers know, too. The video below—recently posted on National Geographic’s Web site—features the couple and their team of “volcano commandos” traversing the slopes of Italy’s Stromboli volcano. The footage was shot in 2002 for a
