Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: The Abode of the Gods and Creation at Kilauea

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The ongoing eruptive activity at the summit caldera of Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawai'i. You aren’t hearing this from me (well,...
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Scenes from a Strawberry Solstice on the Tuolumne River

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Tonight was a unique astronomical event, a Strawberry Moon on a summer solstice, the first since I was a child back in 1967. There's ...
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Sunday, June 19, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: The Beginning of All Things, (Ba)salt of the Earth

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There are lots of places that are associated with a particular kind of rock. There's the granite of the Sierra Nevada, or the sandston...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: Why Should We Care?

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Lapakahi State Park on the Big Island is the remains of an ancient fishing village that was occupied for hundreds of years. Not a single p...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: To know what was we need to know Hawai'i today

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Na Mokupuni O Hawaii Nei-Kalama 1837 (Source: http://imagesofoldhawaii.com/simon-peter-kalama/) To understand the Hawai'i that was,...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

The Hawai'i That Was: A New Blog Series

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Source: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2644b.htm There's a rock in the sea about 500 miles northwest of Honolulu. It...
Monday, June 6, 2016

Pele is a Capricious Goddess...Today She Dispensed a Gift

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Halemaumau, on the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, is a crater within a caldera that has been simmering away for most of the last seven years...
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