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 […]
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
Visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park got an exciting surprise this morning: The road to the best viewing spot for the historic eruption at the summit of Kilauea volcano was again open. The public is once again permitted to drive Crater Rim Drive to the Kilauea crater rim overlook at Thomas A. Jaggar Museum. From
The 45th annual Merrie Monarch Festival begins tonight. This is the World Series, the SuperBowl of hula competitions, bringing the best hula dancers from around the world to Edith Kanakaole Stadium in Hilo, Hawaii. If you can’t get to Hilo, KITV.com will provide live streaming video. (Of course, if you are near a TV set
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
Aloha Airlines announced this morning it was shutting down passenger service—both interisland and transpacific. Its last day of passenger operations will be tomorrow, March 31, though many of its Hawaii-to-Mainland routes have their last flight today, Sunday. If you are holding tickets on Aloha past that date, you can contact other airlines, including United Airlines,
We have a new photo from Volcano photographer Stephen James O’Meara, along with this note from his wife Donna. Donna O’Meara wrote the history of Kilauea’s current eruption for the Jan/Feb issue of HAWAII Magazine. And she has a new book Volcano: A Visual Guide. The O’Mearas live in Volcano Village, a few miles from the
