Blogs from Hawaii, United States, North America - page 171

Today we was an exciting day filled with a lot of work. We woke up at about 7:00 and got ready for the day. We left at about 8:30 a.m. and went and met up with Yin and Chris at the Kawaihae Pier. We went down to the pier to work on the canoe Makali'i which means small eye, with Chadd Paishon a captain and navigator. In 1976 Chadd and a bunch of others built a canoe, Hokulea and sailed to Tahiti under the navigation of Mau Piailug from Satawal an island in Micronesia. Mau taught them how to navigate using just the stars, moon, sun, and the feeling of the ocean. Chadd gave us a history and showed us around the canoe. It is a very large canoe. It was finished in Febuary 4, 1995 ... read more

We stayed in Hawaii till the 4th March and loved every minute its beautiful. We did heaps of things here, north shore tour, big island tour, pearl harbour (sad place). Yay our skin finally got some sun again. Chris and I did a dinner cruise for our one year anniversary. Was beautiful, saw whales and its baby, dolphins and the best sunset ever (and the stupid camera went flat right on sunset then worked again as soon as it was finished). We will definitly come here again.... read more

Today was a mellow day. We woke up around 8:00 am and started cleaning and packing. We had to tie luggage to the top of the the van and it was like tetris putting the luggage and gear in the van. At 12:30 we finally left the house to have lunch. We got some sushi and went to the park to eat it. It was a nice park with a waterfall and some surfers. Afterwards, we started the hour and a half drive to the other side of the island, Kona. Us girls passed out for the whole trip. Once we got to the house we checked it out and unpacked. The house is so nice. After we unpacked we decided to relax and watch some t.v. for the first time all trip. The sun was ... read more

Efter 5½ times flyverejse fra San Francisco landede vi på Maui og trådte ind i troperne. Jakker, langebukser og lukkede sko var pludselig stærkt overflødigt og noget som skulle af i en frygtelig fart. Vi tog en shottlecar til Hertz, som er leverandør af køretøjet her. Efter en hyggelig sludder med de søde kvinder i skranken om hvor DK lå i verden og om Maui's verdensberømmelse lastede vi Ford Taurus'en med gods & guld, satte lidt hawaiimusik på bilradioen og cruisede mod vores mål - Napili Shore Resort. På vejen til det nordvestlige mål blev vi imponeret over den fantastiske frodighed og de smukke og helt grønne bjerge, der rejste sig mod nord. Trafikken var rimelig massiv og vi har senere fået bekræftet at turismen lægger et massivt pres på vejnettet, da alternativet til billeje er ... read more

This morning we got up to an early start. Our group left the house at 7:15 a.m. meeting Lehua at Richardson's Ocean's Park to print designs on our Kihei (robes for ceremonies). Using our imagination we created different patterns and sketched down our ideas onto our Kilei with the tools of nature's plants. After our Kihei's dried from the paint, we ate lunch and drove to the cultural school. At the school we took samples of water in one of the largest fish ponds. The fish pond was cold because majority of the water comes from the mountain. There is a low percentage of salt in the pond. The students of the Charter School blocked the ocean's water that comes into the ponds with a rock wall. Each pond has a gate to close out fish ... read more