Happy New Year. 2007 has come and gone and now is a good time for a very brief review....
GOOD STUFF THAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR
The Hawaii Superferry arrived in the islands and finally set sail on [...]
Hawaii Superferry will relaunch its commercial service on December 1. It was announced on Friday afternoon by Hawaii Superferry as discount tickets went on sale at their website for $29 per person, each way during a promotional [...]
The annual Sony Hawaii Expo was held this week at the Ala Moana Hotel Hibiscus Ballroom. Highlight of this year's Sony Expo was the desktop Sony OLED flatscreen TV (shown above). The hallmark of this high tech wonder is its [...]
Another beautiful Hawaii sunset taken last week at Ala Moana Beach Park. With the advent of the fall season and high clouds rolling in, sunset photographers have been getting some spectacularly wonderful pictures. Check this link out for more [...]
It seems the City & County of Honolulu is leading the way in offering free wireless internet through Honolulu. It is announced today that all Satellite City Halls will get free WiFi access points installed by next month. The service is being offered by vendor Skywave. The service [...]
We had a beautiful sunset on this one of the more cloudy days of the week as we transition away from summer and into fall. I shot about 200 photos at Ala Moana Beach Park this afternoon and this is [...]
Hawaii celebrates Aloha Festivals this month with a flurry of activities happening throughout the state. One of the major highlights is the annual Aloha Festivals floral [...]
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds are in Hawaii in observance of the Air Force's 60th anniversary. The Thunderbirds gave Honolulu residents a real treat today during their two "practice" shows held at 9:00 a.m. [...]
Conditions were nearly perfect last night in Honolulu for viewing and capturing these images of this total lunar eclipse. The rare celestial event was the first total lunar eclipse visible from Hawaii in 4 years. As usual this eclipse was spectacular [...]
Elvis has arrived in Hawaii. A few weeks ago the TV Land cable network donated this brand new, bronze likeness of Elvis Presley. The new statue was set up near Honolulu's Blaisdell Center arena, where in 1973 Elvis performed to [...]
Hurricane Flossie was downgraded to a tropical storm last night. Today the winds are blowing at around 50 mph. The storm did not directly strike the Big Island of Hawaii, though its effects were seen and felt through most of the southern region of that island. There was some [...]
Hurricane Flossie was downgraded to a category 2 storm this morning. It is still a threat to the Big island of Hawaii. The people there should be feeling the effects of the hurricane by noon HST today. I talked to some people on the Big Island this morning, and [...]
The Big Island of Hawaii was hit by a moderate earthquake tonight that registered at 5.3 on the Richter scale. It looks like the quake is volcano related as it occurred downslope near the current Pu'O eruption that has been ongoing since 1983.
A friend of [...]
Hurricane Flossie is still a threat to the Hawaiian Islands. The storm is a Category 4 hurricane with winds of 140 mph as of this morning. Here is the NOAA summary report from 5:AM HST:
[www.prh.noaa.gov]
BULLETIN HURRICANE FLOSSIE ADVISORY NUMBER 20 NWS CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER HONOLULU HI EP092007 500 [...]
Hawaii is bracing for a possible hit by Hurricane Flossie which is churning about 1200 miles east of the state near the Central Pacific Ocean. Forecasters currently predict that the storm may weaken as it travels over cooler waters and that its track should have [...]
Which city has the best weather in the world? Duh? HONOLULU and the entire state of Hawaii is well known for mostly sunny skies, gleaming temperatures in the high 70s, and 80s along most coastlines of all islands. The weather is so pleasant in Hawaii that we don't pay [...]
The Hawaii Superferry will be a classy new way to travel inter-island. Residents and business users will be able to travel to another island bringing their own vehicle with them. This new interisland travel option will allow passengers to bring their [...]
A swarm of small earthquakes have hit the Big Island's Hawaii Volcanoes Natonal Park area for more than 24 hours now. The quakes range from undetectable micro quakes to locally felt tremors of 3.2 to 4 on the Richter [...]
The State Legislature finally got around to addressing the constitutionally mandated issue of providing taxpayers with relief. Under the State Constitution, the legislature is required to provide a refund back to the taxpayers after 2 consecutive years of "tax surplus."
The problem this year is that the tax relief [...]
Governor Linda Lingle selected the Hawaii Quarter design at a press conference yesterday. The Hawaii Quarter will be minted in 2008 and will be the final coin of the 50 state series that was started by the U.S. Mint in 1999. Governor Lingle predicts [...]
Everyone loves new cars. The sights, the smells, the power... the prices... well not everything. This weekend thousands of people flocked to the annual First Hawaiian Bank Auto Show held at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. I [...]
It was a beautiful afternoon in Hawaii Nei after a few days of cloudy skies and some rain. Caught this sunset shot at one of my favorite places for sunset shots, Kakaako Waterfront Park. This is taken from one of the artificially built hills overlooking [...]
They seem to be everywhere in Waikiki. And also in the Ala Moana Shopping Center. The ubiquitous ABC Stores, an operation that is aimed squarely at tourists and probably a very profitable business in the islands. Recently ABC Stores opened what I think is [...]
