Author: Terry Shimabukuro

Technically the solstice was the day before, but we planned our Summer Solstice Celebration on a Saturday so that the working folks could attend. We didn’t think a one second shorter day would matter to anyone.Unfortunately, that day coincided with a couple of large family events that brought hundreds of people to the park. The…

As I watched over seven kayaks waiting for their owners to return from the carpool to Pōkaʻī Bay I kept scanning the ocean for naiʻa, Hawaiian spinner dolphin, that frequent the leeward coast. I saw some splashes near the Kahe power plant discharge outlet and noticed that a tour boat stopped short of the outlet…

Ruby and I pulled into a nearly empty parking lot at Kualoa Campground A to be greeted by a mama duck and her large brood of fluffy ducklings. We hoped that the sparse crowd meant that the large group campsite would be unoccupied for the weekend. Tim had arrived a little before us and he…

We arrived Sunday morning well before eight expecting the normal early morning crowd at Magic Island. Instead we ran into a crowded park road with a myriad of serious people carrying racing canoes to the lawn area around the canoe hale. It turned out that the Kanaka Ikaika Racing Association had a big canoe race…