Tag Archive: Big Island

Simple New Device Guarantees having a dream Hawaiian Vacation:

It’s a travel guide book, NO WORRIES HAWAII, Your Vacation Matchmaker, Kaua’i, Oahu, Maui, Big Island People come to Hawaii for wildly different reasons. What might yours be? In No Worries Hawaii, your… Continue reading

Fake Ai Hawaii Guides flood Amazon: Here’s how to spot them

Easiest way to find a real book: Take a look at a Trailblazer Travel Book, there’s one for each island (see link below). In continuous print for nearly three decades, Trailblazers are written… Continue reading

TikToking to a terrible time in Hawaii

You are blowing a pile of money to go to Hawaii, so it’s only natural to want to get the lowdown and not miss the best stuff. So you go online. And wind… Continue reading

Postpone your trip to Hawaii

  Get ready to take the leap! Hawaii currently has limited beach access and visitor quarantines in effect. When the pandemic passes, you can be ready to hit the trails and beaches by… Continue reading

Big Island: C’mon over, the Air is Fine!

For the first time in more than 30 years, Kilauea Volcano is not spewing vog—volcanic smog—and the air is pure and clean everywhere. The nastiness of vog has not been widely publicized, even though the air quality has been worse at times, in places,  than L.A. in the early 1960s. People were not only gasping in Kona, but also on Maui and Oahu, and even as far as the north shore of Kauai. 

Yay! Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer turns 20

Independent and adventurous travelers can now celebrate the publication of the 20th anniversary edition of Hawaii the Big Island Trailblazer (ISBN: 978-198039129690), which is good to go on Amazon. Volcano goddess Pele has… Continue reading

The wild side of paradise is hidden on the Big Island

Between the tourist buzz of Kailua-Kona and the destination resorts of South Kohala is … well a whole lot of nothing—or, rather, nothing man-made. On this run of wild coast are some of… Continue reading

You won’t see this anywhere else in Hawaii: The Waiopae Tidepools

Yes, there are other saltwater pools in reefs with good snorkeling, but not this many spreading over so many acres on the Big Island’s Puna (east) coast. The Waiopae Tidepools Marine Life Conservation… Continue reading