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View From Here - Hawaii Travel Blog - Snorkeling & Water Adventures

Total Number of Entries - 60

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Red Sky in the Morning on Big Island

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sun 11/22/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island

The best way to view lava up close and personal would be to see where it entered the sea. Yet I'd always heard the ride by boat was too long from the Kona side, so no enterprising sailors ever offered an official tour. Then, I heard about Lava Ocean Adventures. With them, this past Friday, I experienced lava in a way I had always desired.
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Shark Week: Its Coming.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 7/29/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai, Maui, Oahu

Next week, Discovery Channels' perennial favorite "Shark Week" begins. If the above PSA is any indication of the focus this year's program will take, the next person to ask me, "Are there sharks in the ocean," may really be concerned that there aren't. We should all be concerned that there are fewer sharks in our oceans.

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Celebrate World Oceans Day

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 6/8/2009

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai, Maui, Oahu

As for me, I spent most of Saturday at the beach. If you’ve followed my blog for the past few months, you won’t be surprised that I was pup-sitting an endangered Hawaiian monk seal. But I wasn’t checking on “Sunrise Seal,” about whom I have written and photographed extensively. At 6:00 a.m., I checked on a pregnant mom, known at K01. When I left at 10:00, she had rolled back down into the water. I figured she was heading out to feed one more time, because once she pups, she won’t get another good meal for five to seven weeks. At 2:00 p.m., I received a text message: K01 had pupped.
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Whale-Watching in Maui #2

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sat 3/28/2009

Destination: Maui

At 7:30 this morning, the sun glinted off the ocean like it was a field of diamonds. Three minutes outside the Lahaina Harbor, Captain Karl of Maui Adventure Cruises nosed the boat northwest. He had already spotted our first humpback whales of the morning. Thar she blows.
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Whale-Watching in Maui #1

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 3/27/2009

Destination: Maui

When I visit Maui, one of the first places I go is Maui Tacos. Thankfully, my plane touched down today just before lunchtime. After lunch, I traveled down South Kihei Road to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale Sanctuary’s education center. And on to Papawai Scenic Lookout.
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On the Road to Maui

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 3/26/2009

Destination: Maui

So, I am headed back to Maui this weekend, departing tomorrow. Yes, I have a rental car all reserved. Let’s hope it’s available when I arrive.

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Surf’s Up in Hawaii.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 3/16/2009

Destination: Kauai

Cars lined east side surf spots this past weekend. An unusual sight for us, because the island’s best surf usually hits the north shore. However, this weekend, our northeast tradewinds barely puffed while variable winds whispered from the south/southwest, making the rolling waves on the east side as smooth as butter.
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Manta Ray Ballet

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 11/11/2008

Destination: Hawaii Island

If I am ever abducted by aliens, I hope they are as gentle and peaceful as manta rays.I have long wanted to dive with the manta rays off the coast of Big Island. In Hawaii, dive operators claim the experience is the number one night dive in the world, and I have heard many stories about it. How the manta ray gatherings started when a hotel discovered that the spotlights it beamed into the ocean at night attracted the behemoth creatures. How manta rays fly through the water as graceful as ballerinas. How the week before my dive a humpback whale joined the dance, followed by a small school of spinner dolphins.
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Anticipate Shutter Lag

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 9/18/2008

Destination: Oahu

I was on Oahu yesterday, snorkeling at Hanauma Bay with my new underwater housing for my Canon G9. Here’s a photo from my adventure. I have many more just like this one, all fish tails. Long-time volunteer docent and quasi-professional photographer Larry Winnik suggested I spend more time anticipating a fish’s behavior and less time chasing them. Thanks, Larry!
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On Parole

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/12/2008

Destination: Kauai

On the heels of a swell that left the waters off Kauai’s south shore rocking and prevented dive boats from leaving Kukuiula Harbor, I went scuba diving yesterday. You could say it was like we’d finally been released from our prison of waiting.
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