Kaunaoa beach (aka Mauna Kea Beach) is a large, perfect, crescent-shaped, powdery-white-sand beach fringed with palm trees. If you ever were to sit and imagine the quintessential Hawaiian beach, this is what you would come up with. The beach itself is sheltered and the waves are calm (not as sheltered or calm as Spencers for small kids, but still great for big kids).
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As many of 5000 homeless may live on Hawaii’s beaches (Baltimore Sun)
Photos of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands (Hawaii Travel Newsletter)
Haleakala National Park wants your opinion on dropping length of park passes from 7 days to 3 days (Maui World)
New Mauna Kea telescopes may never be built (A Western Heart)
Picture of Kate Hudson and son on a kayak in Hawaii (Celeb Source)
People in Hawaii live longer, but just moving here won’t necessarily do the trick (Honolulu Advertiser)
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76 y.o. man dies on popular Maui downhill bike ride (I’ve never heard of this happening before) (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hawaii Remembers 9-11 (Hawaii Logue)
Paniolo (Hawaiian cowboy) culture thriving on the Big Island (Star Bulletin)
Stingrays not a big danger in Hawaii (Honolulu Advertiser)
Father Damien Honored (KHNL)
Forget Hawaii Images Screensavers, Hawaii Sounds MP3s are coming (KHNL)
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Hawaii, although physically as far removed as any state in the nation from the September 11th tragedy, felt the pain, anguish, and loss just as clearly and achingly as anyone else in the nation. In fact, in the initial days that followed many of us felt particularly impotent because we couldn’t even participate in the call for blood donations as the planes weren’t flying and any blood given would just stay here in Hawaii.
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Listen to a Hawaiian Radio Station from anywhere (Hawaiian Rainbow)
Tell a story, read a story, name a survivor (Pearl Harbor Stories)
1924 Hanapepe Massacre remembered on Kauai (Star Bulletin)
Found a piece of Hawaii outside of Hawaii? The Star Bulletin wants a picture! (Star Bulletin)
Puuhonua O Honaunau National Park on the Big Island gets much bigger (Star Bulletin)
New Polynesian Cafe in Kapaa, Kauai (Kauai World)
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Puukohola Heiau (official site) is a massive temple built completely out of water-worn valley rocks from a valley past Hawi, moved there by a human chain stretching for miles.
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Virtually all the public schools in Hawaii are on the same year-round schedule. They have a first semester of about July 31st to December 20th and a second semester of about January 12th, to June 7th. The holidays are:
3rd Friday in August - Statehood Day or Admissions Day
1st Monday in September - Labor Day
1st Tuesday in November following 1st Monday of even-numbered years - General Election Day
11th of November - Veterans Day
4th Thursday in November - Thanksgiving Day
4th Friday in November - Holiday Day
25th of December - Christmas
1st of January - New Year’s Day
3rd Monday in …
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Haleakala National Park on Maui – A sprawling park stretching from the ocean to the mountain (however you can not get to the ocean from the mountain access road or vice versa but the entrance fees for one will get you into the other). The mountain area has the famous downhill bike ride, plants unique to the area, hiking, and fantastic sunrises. The ocean area is past Hana and has hiking, waterfalls with swimmable pools, and beaches.
There are 4 National Parks on the Big Island
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When talking about an island made up of nothing but great beaches we could be here forever, so I’m going to break this post up a bit. These beaches are my favorite of the most popular beaches - the ones that are easy to find and filled with people. Going during the week will ease the crowding quite a bit at all but Waikiki Beach.
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My son and I spent a long, enjoyable afternoon at Spencer Beach Park on the Kohala coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. Let me share it with you.
Spencer beach is a medium-to-small sized, crescent-shaped, white-sand beach. Large trees mostly on the beach provide plenty of shade on both ends of the beach and along the back. There are picnic tables, showers, bathrooms, some barbecue grills, a basketball court, and a pavilion.
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