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Hawksbill Sea Turtles in Hawaii

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sun 6/5/2011

Destination: Maui

It’s turtle nesting season in Hawaii. There are eight species of sea turtles in the world’s oceans. Five swim in the waters of Hawaii and yet only one—the green sea turtle—is commonly spotted in the near-shore waters of all the main Hawaiian Islands. Another, the hawksbill, is critically-endangered and nests on the beaches of Maui and Big Island, primarily.
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The Road to Hana Yields Breadfruit

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sat 6/4/2011

Destination: Maui

I found the breadfruit trees. They are in East Maui. Hundreds of them. One benefit to researching stories--in this case, one about The Breadfruit Institute at the National Tropical Botanical Garden—is that my travels take me to some beautiful places. Yesterday, I drove the Road to Hana.
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The Most Capable of Change

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 6/2/2011

Destination: Maui, Kauai, Oahu

I am sitting in a chair in the air, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Oahu. I am headed to Maui for a short getaway, and I am writing this on a wireless keyboard using the Notes app on my iPhone4. While sitting at the Lihue Airport waiting to board Hawaiian flight #508, I received a phone call from my friend Pat, who lives on a sailboat at the Ala Wai Boat Harbor on Oahu. I checked my Facebook account to read about her cat’s morning swim in the harbor. I tweeted about the three birdwatchers sitting next to me, pouring over their bird books and plotting their birding adventures on Maui. (Hosmer Grove, I leaned over and whispered.)
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Two Roads Diverged in Sunny Waikiki

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 5/27/2011

Destination: Oahu

The next night, I found myself outside the Outrigger Waikiki Hotel on Kalakaua Avenue again, and, again, I paused to watch humanity stroll by—a woman, husband, grandmother, runner, dogwalker, child and surfer leaving possibly the same wet footprints as the night before. This time, I turned left, proving you can come back another day and take the “other” road.
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Walking Waikiki

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 5/25/2011

Destination: Oahu

I chose to walk the 15 minutes from Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach to the Waikiki Aquarium where two languid and slippery seals napped as the annual Outrigger Leadership Conference got underway on the nearby lawn. When I come to Oahu for business meetings, I prefer to hit the streets on my own two legs rather than hail a cab or, even, hop on the effervescent trolley that meanders the streets of Waikiki. And while dress shoes don’t always make the best walking shoes, I don’t mind the sore spots they create on my tender feet that usually live sans footwear when I am at work behind the desk of my home office.
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A Humpback Whale Visit on Endangered Species Day

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sat 5/21/2011

Destination: Kauai

At exactly 3:53 p.m. at Kauai's Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge on Friday, May 20, I heard a woman's voice exclaim, "There's a spinner dolphin." I remember thinking that I hadn't see any earlier in the sandy-bottomed waters off Kauapea Beach. Maybe, I thought--it's really amazing how fast thoughts can whiz through your mind--maybe it's a pod coming from the bay around the point--Kalihiwai--and headed out to sea for a night of foraging. I've seen them rest there during the day before, too.
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Coconuts and Composting

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 5/18/2011

Destination: Kauai

At 10:50, sitting in traffic in Kapaa, I knew I'd gotten the timing all wrong. I had ten minutes to go from the north end of Kapaa on Kauai to the Kauai Resource Center on Ahukini Road, near the airport. On a typical day, this would be tight. Today, with the by-pass road that skirts downtown Kapaa and relieves the area of traffic closed for repairs, I would be late. No doubt about it. I do not like being late.
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Here's a Big Idea: Go on Vacation.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 5/12/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island, Kauai, Maui, Oahu

Why is it the solution to a problem comes in the shower? Or when I am walking my dogs? And why do the words to an essay start flowing as soon as I slip behind the wheel of my car? Like they did last night when I headed out for dinner at Oasis on the Beach in Kapaa? Apparently, according to psychologist Lile Jia at the Indiana University at Bloomington, for the same reason I can see a much greater expanse of the ocean from “windy point” on Kauai’s Kalalau Trail than from Kee beach a half-mile below. In a word: Distance.
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Why Leave Hawaii to Go on Vacation?

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 5/9/2011

Destination: Kauai

In spring, Hawaii’s plumeria, gardenia, milo and kukui are blooming. Hawaiian monk seals are pupping. Mangoes are fruiting. Laysan albatross chicks are feathering out. Red-footed booby chicks hatching. There are Nene and Koloa and Black-crowned Night-heron. And chickens. Boisterous chickens. Really boisterous chickens.

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Merrie Monarch's Miss Aloha Hula 2011

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 4/29/2011

Destination: Hawaii Island

As the sun set and the sky turned purple and, then, dark black, inside the Edith Kanakaole Stadium, the crowd found its seats at the 48th annual Merrie Monarch Festival. Twelve dancers vied for the 2011 title of Miss Aloha Hula. They would each dance one kahiko dance in the ancient tradition and one 'auana dance in the modern tradition, and by the end of the evening just before midnight as the rain fell hard outside, one would be recognized as Miss Aloha Hula.
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