It’s hard to believe 2020 started without much drama or complication: I went with my family to the beach, we visited friends that weekend, my husband fished with his friends visiting from California and Washington state. At work, we were recording podcasts in the office, hopping on planes to Hawaiʻi Island for stories and eating […]
1. Check Out the Friendship Garden in Kāneʻohe The Royal Kāʻanapali Course takes advantage of its natural beauty at every hole. Photo: Courtesy of the Royal Kāʻanapali Course I’m planning—OK, dreaming—to play a different golf course every month with my sales manager, Carolyn Hyman. She doesn’t know this, nor does our president, so let’s keep
November is when the koholā (humpback whales) return to Hawaiʻi to breed, birth and nurse calves. An estimated 8,000 to 12,000 of the protected marine mammals migrate from Alaska to the Islands’ warm, shallow waters through April, when they head back north again. This year, though, the first North Pacific humpback whale sighting was reported on Oct.
Joe Au-Franz remembers a recent ring hunt he’d been on at Waikīkī Beach. “I knew I was going to find it because I pulled a nickel and a pull tab. You always pull a nickel and a pull tab because they sound like rings,” he says. “So I knew if they lost a ring here,
Have you gotten your Christmas shopping done yet? There’s really not a lot of time left! In case you’ve got no idea what to get, check out the items—from fanny packs to ʻukulele—HAWAIʻI Magazine staffers would like to see under their Christmas trees. 1. Zip Backpack ($295) from Umbrella Collective Photo: Getty Images I’m really hoping that
As news spread of a new eruption at Kīlauea on Hawaiʻi Island, hundreds of visitors rushed over to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park yesterday and today for a glimpse of the spectacular sight. SEE ALSO: There’s a New Eruption at Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaiʻi But park officials are stressing the importance of safety—both because of high amounts
Ho, ho, who’s that jolly old man surfing into Waikīkī Beach on an outrigger canoe? Why it’s none other than jolly old Saint Nick, making his annual visit to Waikīkī Beach before starting his monumental trip to deliver presents to all of the good keiki (kids) around the whole world. Normally, Santa would be greeted a massive crowd of excited kiddos
Hawaiʻi Island residents woke up to an unexpected overnight eruption at Kīlauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater this morning. On Sunday night an eruption sent plumes of smoke into the air but posed no immediate threats to nearby communities. No evacuations were needed. By 1 a.m. U.S. Geological Survey officials reported lava fountains that shot 165 feet into the
While a cozy Christmas morning—and day—spent inside your holly, jolly hale (home) does sound pleasant, it’s never a bad idea to take advantage of the holiday and get out and about! But, if you do decide to get on your merry way on the 25th of December, it’s important to know what will be open, and what won’t be. To
Aloha Friday Picks is a weekly news blog that will run every Friday and features three things we recommend you do, try or experience over the weekend. Send us tips at media@hawaiimagazine.staging.upspringsites.com. Even if you didn’t finish your Christmas shopping—we feel you!—that’s OK. There are other things to do this weekend—and they don’t involve the malls.
After nine months of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Diamond Head State Monument in Honolulu will reopen on Thursday, Dec. 17 with significant changes to ensure public health and safety. Here are the new rules if you want to venture up the popular hiking trail: You must always wear a mask in the park. You
Aloha Friday Picks is a weekly news blog that will run every Friday and features three things we recommend you do, try or experience over the weekend. Send us tips at media@hawaiimagazine.staging.upspringsites.com. It really is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas, all through the Islands. So now’s the time for you to do these only-in-Winter activities
