Wondering what a tsunami could do to our coast? After the recent tsunami alert, I went looking for some history. It didn’t take long to find a couple of photos. The top photo shows a tsunami washing ashore on Laie Point in 1957 following an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. [credit: NOAA/NGDC/Henry Helbush] The second [...]
It has been a long week. Last week, Silverman suddenly lost his appetite. For a cat who is typically more than enthusiastic about meals, this was obviously not good. On Saturday, it was off to the vet to get him checked out. And it was a good thing that I didn’t wait. Blood and urine [...]
A task force appointed by the Department of Education has recommended that a proposal to close Kaaawa Elementary School be rejected by the Board of Education. A public hearing to consider the task force report will be held next Wednesday evening, June 2. The DOE’s official notice of the meeting was publicly posted on May [...]
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This is why we can still feel like Kaaawa is in the “country”. Sunday morning, about 7:15 a.m. I’m standing in the middle of Kamehameha Highway looking in the direction of Punaluu and beyond. Of course, there’s a bit of irony in the fact that we drive nearly an hour from downtown Honolulu in order [...]
I thought we heard a weather forecast last night predicting sunny weather for today. But there wasn’t much sun to be found in Kaaawa this morning. A few minutes after I took this picture, that rain reached us and it was umbrellas most of the way home. You can click on the photo for a [...]
We were out early Friday morning for the sunrise in Kaaawa. We weren’t disappointed. This was the view at Swanzy Beach Park at 5:57 a.m. The sun made its appearance a couple of minutes earlier.
Oh, oh! Somethings going on in the world of the Kaaawa peacocks. For several days, we’ve heard a loud peacock cry early in the morning, sounding louder than usual. This morning we found out why. The Big Peacock, the one with the big tail feathers, has apparently decided to roost in the huge banyan tree [...]
Umbrellas were an essential part of our walk this morning, as that rain blew in to shore just a few minutes after we started our trek back towards home from the the beach on the other end of Kaaawa. We’ve been back for only about 20 minutes, and the sun is already out and bright, [...]
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