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Jack's Best Bet for Birding on Hawaii Island

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 9/26/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island

Jack Jeffrey knows birds. He knows plants. He knows when plants will bloom and what birds will flock to those blossoms like my husband gravitates to chocolate. For 30 years, Jack has roamed the valleys, rainforests and mountains of Hawaii Island studying, observing and photographing Hawaii’s endemic forest birds as wildlife biologist, photographer and all-around birder. Here, he shares his favorite birding spots on Hawaii Island, as well as some exquisite images of Hawaii’s beautiful birds.
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Hawaii Island's Best Beach for Snorkeling

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/23/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island

When I arrived at Hawaii Island’s number one snorkeling beach last week, the tide was low, revealing bright green seaweed growing on rocks. Exactly 77 beach-goers were out--reclining on beach towels, wading in the water, swimming and snorkeling. A dozen more sat at the picnic tables under the pavilion. Sean, a one-time public defender from California, manned the lifeguard tower, and two retired school teachers, Ken and Regan, set up shop for ReefTeach.
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Counting Crows

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 9/22/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island

I’m standing on one side of a window in the library of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center. On the other side of the glass, two crows, a couple, go about their day. The male presents the back of his head to the female. She reaches over, opens her bill and plucks out a feather. He flinches but presents his head to her again, and she reaches, opens and plucks. It’s molting season, a prickly, itchy time for a bird. A little help snagging those feathers in hard to reach places is greatly appreciated.
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Be Here Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 9/21/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai

Be Here Hawaii! Have you heard? You could win a free trip to Hawaii! Outrigger is conducting a sweepstakes that could net you a week at an Outrigger condo on Hawaii Island or Kauai AND airfare for two from Hawaiian Airlines. If you haven't already done so, enter now. And come visit.
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A Weekend on Napali: Part Five

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 9/15/2011

Destination: Kauai

I walked to the nearby picnic area and introduced myself to a man with an easy smile and a beautiful weathered face as radiant and warm as any of the sunsets we had witnessed over the past four nights along Nāpali Coast. “Sit. Sit,” he said to me and patted the bench next to him. He had spent the night here, in the open air, making the table his bed. I sat, and he buttered a Saloon Pilot cracker, careful to spread the butter evenly. He offered the buttered cracker to me, “Like?” A portable radio played Hawaiian music. Steam rose from his instant coffee in the plastic cap of an old thermos.
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A Weekend on Napali: Part Four

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 9/14/2011

Destination: Kauai

Mike & Natalia caught a late afternoon boat ride back to Kīkīaola and civilization with Captain Andy’s Raft Expeditions, one of three boat tour operators permitted to land at Nu‘alolo Kai and take their passengers on a guided tour through the valley, and that left me with time on my hands to do some real work.
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A Weekend on Napali: Part Three

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 9/13/2011

Destination: Kauai

The camp kitchen had been set up. My tent was barely pitched and not a grain of sand had yet found its way into my sleeping bag when the two botanists geared up, both in long sleeved shirts, long pants and hats, and both toting bulging backpacks. Both, too, wearing studded tabi boots, a kind of Japanese fishing sock meets golf shoe that, apparently, is footwear de rigueur for botanists. I would soon learn why.
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10 Years Ago

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sun 9/11/2011

Destination: Kauai

It was Tuesday. I paddled on Tuesdays. In Hawaii, half a world away, I wondered if all my paddling friends had heard the news. Some live here expressly to get away from the bombardment of fear and negativity on which mass media seem to thrive. Others had already called and invited me to prayer vigils that very evening. My choice, it seemed, on Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was spiritual or physical.
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A Weekend on Napali: Part Two

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/9/2011

Destination: Kauai

Yesterday, I wrote about my arrival at Nu‘alolo Kai along Kaua‘i’s Nāpali Coast State Park. Today, I share some of the earliest written accounts of Nāpali and Nu‘alolo--all by non-Hawaiians. Hiram Bingham and his entourage first arrived in Hawaii in 1820, on behalf of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1821, he voyaged along Nāpali Coast in a double-hulled canoe. Here is a snippet of his arrival at Nu‘alolo Kai.
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A Weekend on Napali: Part One

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 9/8/2011

Destination: Kauai

The sky was dark when we met at Kīkīaola Harbor on Kaua‘i’s west side, a pile of yellow, blue, green and red dry bags gathering on the dock as each member of our work party arrived at the rude hour of 5:00 a.m. We said our groggy hellos, sharing breath in the traditional Hawaiian greeting known as honi and with the more common pecks on the cheek. A sky full of diamonds sparkled overhead.
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