For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then in March, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the usual amount of toxic gas.
More than 200 acres of land that belonged to the Kingdom of Hawaii before the United States took control a century ago will be returned to Native Hawaiians
Hurricane Flossie roared on course to brush Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday hours after guarded residents were rattled by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake and dozens of aftershocks
Standing thigh-deep in a roaring creek, Donnie Mitts wrestles a water-soaked plank. Before last night's downpour, the board served as a bridge over the stream. Today, Mitts fights the powerful current to muscle it back into place. From the creek bank, a cluster of onlookers watches nervously. If he loses his footing, the rushing water will sweep him over a waterfall just a few feet downstream -- leaving the group stranded in the forest without a guide.
In 2000, Jim and Tracy Reddekopp and their four kids moved to a six-acre farm in Paauilo, Hawaii, off the Big Island's northeast Hamakua coast. On the property was a former coffee mill (turned slaughterhouse, turned vacant building) but the family planned to grow nothing more than ... more kids. But at Tracy's mother's suggestion that they grow vanilla, something just struck a chord in Jim, and he was off to the races.
For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then in March, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the usual amount of toxic gas.
More than 200 acres of land that belonged to the Kingdom of Hawaii before the United States took control a century ago will be returned to Native Hawaiians
Hurricane Flossie roared on course to brush Hawaii's Big Island on Tuesday hours after guarded residents were rattled by a 5.4 magnitude earthquake and dozens of aftershocks
Standing thigh-deep in a roaring creek, Donnie Mitts wrestles a water-soaked plank. Before last night's downpour, the board served as a bridge over the stream. Today, Mitts fights the powerful current to muscle it back into place. From the creek bank, a cluster of onlookers watches nervously. If he loses his footing, the rushing water will sweep him over a waterfall just a few feet downstream -- leaving the group stranded in the forest without a guide.
In 2000, Jim and Tracy Reddekopp and their four kids moved to a six-acre farm in Paauilo, Hawaii, off the Big Island's northeast Hamakua coast. On the property was a former coffee mill (turned slaughterhouse, turned vacant building) but the family planned to grow nothing more than ... more kids. But at Tracy's mother's suggestion that they grow vanilla, something just struck a chord in Jim, and he was off to the races.
I didn't plan to go to the Hilo Coffee Mill. In fact, on my tour of Big Island farms, I intend to skip coffee entirely. Not that there was any shortage of Kona coffee tourist experiences - they are some of the only agritourism operations with the marketing sophistication to, say, leave brochures in hotel lobbies - but I was looking for the more unusual crops.
THE BACKGROUND Overfishing is severely depleting wild ocean-fish stocks and threatening the $158 billion commercial fishing industry. The number of fish caught annually is declining, with a recent ...
The background: Overfishing is severely depleting wild ocean fish stocks and threatening the $158 billion commercial fishing industry. The number of fish caught annually is declining, with a recent study projecting that the world's commercially harvested fish populations could collapse by 2048.
A few months ago, I had to go to the Big Island of Hawaii for a last-minute assignment. I called the Fairmont Orchid to book a room for that evening. When the reservation agent asked for my President's Club number, I told her I wasn't a member. After all, I'm rarely lucky enough to stay in such luxurious digs, and I assumed there was an annual fee or some other requirement. The agent informed me that the lowest of Fairmont's three-tier memberships is complimentary, adding, "There are several in-hotel benefits available on your first stay after enrolling."
Year after year, the Big Island consistently affords the rare opportunity to watch lava in action. And best of all, you get to check out the show without having to run for your life.
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