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10 Photography Tips and Tricks From Hawaiʻi Instagram Influencers and Photographers

Photographing Hawaiʻi and its many natural marvels is easy. Point your camera, click the shutter and you should have a beautiful photo. But there’s nothing wrong with wanting to improve—and the Islands are a great place to do just that. Here are 10 pointers on how to take the perfect picture, provided by 10 photographers and Instagram influencers who […]

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Growing Up Wild: A Q&A with Author Toby Neal

Maui-based mental health therapist-turned-writer Toby Neal, whose series of Hawai‘i-based crime and romance novels are hugely popular, penned a memoir called “Freckled” about her wild childhood on Kaua‘i. More than 35,000 copies of her self-published book have already been sold since January 2019. Now splitting time between Pukalani and Northern California, Neal is still writing

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There’s More Than a New Pool Complex at the Hale Koa Hotel on Oʻahu

Built in 1975, the Hale Koa Hotel in Waikīkī, one of only four U.S. Armed Forces Recreation Centers in the world, has catered to millions of guests who are eligible through their military service—active or retired—or Department of Defense or Coast Guard status. (See the hotel’s eligibility requirements here.) Starting in January, though, the hotel,

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There’s More to Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden Than Its Instagrammable Entrance

Everyone wants the same shot: the tree-lined road from the entrance of Hoʻomaluhia Botanical Garden toward the Koʻolau Mountains. For reference, this is what it looks like (without filters or special camera tricks): Photo: Catherine Toth Fox But why stop at the beginning of the park when there are so many more reasons to venture into this lush

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5 Epic Adventures the HAWAII Staff is Planning for 2020

1. Learn to Surf   Photo: Kevin Allen I’m planning an epic adventure to celebrate my birthday this summer: hiking the 11-mile Kalalau Trail along Kauai’s Napali Coast. The trail has reopened after devastating rain caused flooding and landslides in 2018. Several years ago, I hiked to Hanakapiai Falls – two miles along the Kalalau Trail

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Hawaii’s State Bird No Longer Endangered

Good news for the nene, or Hawaiian goose: It is no longer on the brink of extinction. In a ceremony at Honouliuli National Historic Site on Oahu on Sunday, state officials and U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced that the official state bird of Hawaii is now considered a threatened species under the

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