Home. Donald bryant and breathtaking how why. Travelling around these islands ignites the hawaiian spirits of within. A unique and captivating world in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. For me its just the time i feel the most a lot of us present. A lot is a way of life that would represent so much more than the typical cheese shake hands. Well believe it will. The little children of the sea. The islands balanced and glorious nature inspires is what if. And a desire to reconnect to the world around us. Any actual data from an emirates really excited actually anyone to go to the leftists. But what does a low on mean exception. We encountered some remarkable people and learned of their dreams and visions for how. This stories are as fascinating and surprising as the islands themselves. The beach is the backdrop to the wine life it captivates people from all over the world. Their. Its where our journey begins in honolulu on the island of on the legendary beach that epitomizes our idea of paradise. David is here on the beach every day and theres no one else here coveting for him why he keep each isnt just where he works its his soul mate. He needs everything this speech very dear. My girl for my wife because she feeds me she takes care of being as she pays my bills. What a wonderful wife. To grow over thirty years davids been one of the first on the beach every morning and he gets right to work preparing his section for tourists. He rents out sift bullets and keeps the sound clean and tidy hes living. One doesnt know what hes everything. All really good thats a lot you know that would be. Wouldnt be the same without locals like david always up for a friendly chat with visits his. Then the true guardians of the beach that includes keeping it pristine they say when the waves roll in over the show they shouldnt take anything with them when they roll back out. Though she means. My playground my cemetery. That i want to be carried out. My father and my brothers are all there. Again a good deal they live anywhere else david makes enough money to get by hes not bridge but he is happy. To have. Over the last three decades hes seen a lot of things change here on Waikiki Beach but some things have stayed the same. Sometimes when hes not distracted he feels mustela tick about how things used to be. Born and raised on this beach and i think he changed the turkish state of the locals. Your seat doing the local people in the speech well i was going out. This weekend. Is about is more commercial. David has fond memories of his childhood days here his love of the beach is just as fierce as it was back then. Just behind him beach and city life converge honolulu is the capital of hawaii and one of the most expensive cities in the United States seventy percent of the state population lives here. Its skyline is now characterized by imposing hotel blocks skyscrapers and shopping malls american and japanese millionaires have been investing money for decades prices have soared to do to chris hoy its changing the face of hunted for ever. Many locals feel like theyve missed the boat the fast tempo and development mania of honolulu came about so quickly it passed them by. Jobs are hard to come by. The one thing still accessible to everyone is the p. H. But many choose to seek their fortune on the other islands. On big island the largest of the archipelago we meet someone whos taken fate into his own hands. His is a story tailor made for why. Here and there were plenty its not only the people and their day to day lives but also the spectacular landscape. Anyone who wants to understand how why should meet six a hes an island legend who lives the end though i live style intensely. He makes traditional hawaiian products including roku what its made from fun five years it was an essential part of any life it feel a lot of people who have no connection michael says because. They dont have to they can just go to the store buy the cordage and not think of anything but for us to gather and for us to separate the fibers and for us to put it together strengthens our practice and strengthens our traditions. In the nineteen seventies six started making hawaiian shirts with traditional patents as an alternative to the cheap polyester versions sold as seventy s. He can take on the gap in the markets and theyll sell his shirts all over the world every path has a meaning. Most of them begin with some kind of practice that i want to perpetuate every print that we create has a story very. Important perspective of the culture. First cig everything is connected to life and death nature and family its all intertwined for him its the essence of hawaii my spirit using when i mean this my spirit is in here and we must protect that spirit because. It is also available to anyone to take and we must be protective of that because the young. Theres always a balance in life and. Living six months to honor why in traditions to build a future for why that celebrates its and sister e. And island gods its a sentiment he shares with many others. Six shows a special place in the forest he comes here to find inspiration for new patents and to pay his respect to nature. The winds dont just walk into the forest uninvited they are the mission through some evidence of a deep connection to nature. There was a war. The greater meaning of the law is is really that reciprocal action whether it be you or the land with you or the ocean new with the mountains. Oh yeah is is such a. Big word. The finer points of a though are invariably lost on temporary visits his likes its customers. But as he travels through hawaii it becomes tedious just how much nature and the ocean outpost of it and on maui theyre both present in abundance. Its another i didnt. Sparsely populated far away from the hustle and bustle. The main thing on everyones mind here on the beach whens the next perfect wave coming. On a mobile people beach we need one of the worlds most successful female big wave surfing says. Its an extreme and dangerous sport but one she finds very rewarding. For me its just the time that i feel the most alive and the most surprising you have to truly be in the moment and not have other things on your mind but its also an act like accumulation of all of your. Time spent in the water and all of your training put into that way so its also like pulling in everything that youve been through in your life to ride those waves so. Its just the time that i feel the most happy. Looking page its easy to imagine she could surf before she could rule. She developed an instinct for the waves right here on this speech. Cokie this is where i grew up surfing and this is home so this is probably one of the most fierce places to my heart. Summer that i love coming every day and seeing all my friends. Like the best jelly meat ever. Paid she lives with her boyfriend sean and labrador mocha in a modest house a few kilometers from the beach you know ill go. Shes one of the three few women in the world who did to take on the thirty. But the prize money isnt enough to live on. Every new record they break them sponsorship deals and advertising contracts thats not how it is for page. In keeping with the spirit she tries to stay relaxed and. Ive been through a lot of ups and downs with my career and having sponsored. You can get on a downer and be like oh im over the why dont i deserve but its like its a really good reminder to always turn it around and look in on yourself and just be grateful for everything that you have. To keep their heads about page and her boyfriend promises business they make and repair boards may be designed for riding a gargantuan waves like jewels where its a matter of she has survival. Paige knows better than anyone what it would need to take them on. Jobs in particular is probably the most technical big wave there is a lot of big waves in the world youre just going straight on the sway of your you have to be able to maneuver and. You need a board to. Hold lines differently than most. Big wave surfing is physically demanding paige has to stay fit and train holding her breath for as long as possible should she take a tumble in the will said. These things can mean the difference between life and day if youre not prepared to see will win every time. You. Go and when you have a bad wife and big surf its pretty file and its kind of like being in a car accident and being in an avalanche or just getting free zone around when you have no control of your body so when you do you a lot of physical preparation for those moments you feel a lot more comfortable situation. Page has been fortunate so far the many crosses on the whole keep up each remember those whove lost their minds. Fabian. Steve twenty four. Betty seventeen. Im always scared because being out in big surf is probably one of the scariest things you can put your self into any situation about situation is pretty scary when you see a fifty foot wave coming at you. But its also something that brings you the most joy the biggest highs ive ever felt in my life so something where you really feel like i truly was. So you just have to push their your fears and theres nothing more exhilarating and empowering them pushing your own fear. This is what pates lives for those intoxicating few seconds. How why is a place where people can see their desires and passions and they dont give up. We encountered a striking example with us in southern iraq who. Just before sunrise we meet two members of the nation of hawaii on the beach. Dennis or bumpy come to him day and his nephew brandon one to give us a traditional blessing before we enter their well. Number of brandon advocate independence for one of their blessing is a special honor and tells us a lot about this sense of. Who want to be or new folks who are all or all or nearly all blessings to be review as you travel because you want to go to places that the remark feels most is me. Wyclef as the sun comes up. The blessing is then complete when we fall into the ocean. And submerged songs in the o. C. The soaking wet bass inspired a new perspective opens up for us in this country a gateway into that world. Where. Branson opens the gate to message saying hes the deputy head of state of what is for them the true. International border normally i would ask you for your passport but we will let you slide today. But yes this is our nation a nation of hawaii. For over twenty years brendan and his people have been fighting for an independent free from the United States. Theyve been given land in the jungle at the foot of the mountains eighty four people live in the settlement which has its own government and is tolerated by the us. A lot of hopes up and on brandon by those who want to preserve their language and identity. So like im the next generation so i have a responsibility to to take on you know the rest of us because this is this is a place where we we feel we can truly be hawaii you know this is where we feel safe this is where we feel at home this is this is where we feel like our ancestors and everything all is with us you know this is takes our mind set all of what happened to us in one thousand nine hundred three and takes us back to that time. The royal palace in one hundred in. The last queen of why was overthrown by the americans in. Eight hundred ninety three the u. S. An x. To y. A short time later in eight hundred ninety eight. Favorably positioned in the Pacific Ocean the us set up a military base here. Decades later the japanese launched a surprise attack on pearl harbor eight u. S. Battleships were lost or damaged. The memorial for the sunken us s. Arizona commemorates the events of that day and those who died. To this day the sunken ship still loses oil in the middle of who wine. The fiftieth and youngest us state having joined the federal republic in one nine hundred fifty nine. But some hawaiians like brandon feel theyve been coerced into being american even though theyre living in their native country. Hawaiians are a mix of several national of teens who want the best from all of those will hit and why. But brandon wants to do that without the United States and is seeking support. You know by going out to the u. N. By having talks with other countries where establishing before relations so we are acting as a country so what were doing is just concentrating here this making this exists and you know and thats how we can take on more responsibility thats all we can bring in wind so. Preserving Hawaiian Heritage they also renouncing the rule of the u. S. Theyre trying to create a miniature model here for they grand vision. They want a diverse cosmopolitan but selfsufficient and as independent as possible. But brandon sometimes feels alone in his efforts i help my fellow hawaiian out there you know their house to keep their job and house to keep going to work and that one day that you know we can actually provide them with a job we can leave that job and come more for us and the be doing it all together and and then ill be so lonely. Brandon trusts in the power of his ancestry history it sounds a teeny. Tealeaf is planted to protect them from bad spirits that secret site at home but it also calls on good spirits. What does aloha mean to you one of the meanings that weve experience in his own is the fearlessness of of our people of humanity. When you fearless you can actually love more than anybody else because you dont fear. Guilty theologian abusive or the deal physically abuse you your fearless to that so all you can beings valving. How well hes loving spirit prevails even in the face of disaster. Which rebel to the east of big island with a volcano so active. Why itself was formed by the chemical activity. Most of the hot lava slides into the ocean. But a few years ago it changed course and stones a creeping towards the town of poa. It destroyed everything in its path. But stopped and solidified just in front of this house. When it was coming straight for the house i did get anxiety it did worry me but it wasnt so much for me it wasnt like oh my god were going to lose everything in the end its all we have had i thought in those terms i would have been a very miserable person so i just made peace with it and said well the law is coming its going to take the house where are we going i just consider this a sacrifice to hawaii for being so good to me and then sure enough it stops you know ten feet before it started devouring the town of the hole that. Many buildings did fall victim to the lava homes were evacuated but the people of poet took things and theyre strong and everything has to end sometime so why fresh about it. The hotel is a magnet for hippies and eccentrics theres zest for life is a combination of karma and though a. Busy road built on one of the living on the border and all the people recognize. Our surprise he didnt really try to change of course were all regular people all were going to go for some people say that because we have all this raul malo that karma or whatever bounces back really fast because theres not so much to filter things out. Do you believe that most days i do object and i do if it seems true. To bring. Syracuse to be a teacher in chicago but she told life there too hectic and loud several years ago she and some friends open the path of Village Museum and cafe. Not many tourists come here but that doesnt bother them but the main thing is that the feeling is right no matter what happens. In general vibe of folks who live here almost kind of welcomed it in a way because its the natural order of things and so its its disrespectful to not honor that. So personally yeah i was kind of running around crazy for a while getting evacuated and removing everything from my home but at the same time there was a very sweet respect for the process from everybody. The sense of trust in what will be will be is the classic why. They dont take themselves too seriously because they believe that everythings in the hands of ohio or to. The fence begin to reclaim their home and the world needs to. Now i can look at all of this dried law and just know that life is a cycle and it comes and goes and it morphs and it changes and so what in hundred years from now its not going to be there anyway so go find go find the next thing to do. In. This league norm survived unscathed and since the volcano theyve held a weekly Music Festival here for people in the region to celebrate and express their gratitude. Theres always a good turnout as they turn their misfortune into something positive every when statements make. It. Clear. And while they live it up. Love it is still spilling into the ocean a little further up the cards. For millions of years how why was isolated far removed from any continent. It is composed of a diverse range of landscapes including deserts volcanoes rain forests and mountains. On the west of big island kona provides the perfect conditions for growing one plant in particular. This is where ya an all star lives originally from germany he fell in love with the landscape and decided to cultivate a slice of paradise for himself you often have spent the last twelve years here on these Coffee Plantation. Doesnt copy whole structure your boys. Islam with my interest in the Coffee Business began when i was fifteen at small cafes in the Eifel Mountains or in the i forget know. He they say went to new york to work as a creative director for luxury brands. That fall space lifestyle is a far cry from what he does know. He used to attend training courses for his work though he relies on other solutions it doesnt need him its like anything else life or the you want to change the brakes in your car or try a new hairstyle but theres always a you tube video to explain how to do it this really has one really nice thing is that there are a lot of people here from Different Countries can talk like who are in close contact with jamaican coffee farmers in south americans from colombia and of course they always bring new expertise that we can benefit from. When your son bought the Coffee Plantation on big island with his wife and young daughter to this the timber eleventh terrorist attacks in new york still weighed heavily on the hearts. And major life change seen everest in paris. But it wasnt all peaches and cream. Everything seems like paradise when you first arrived here from the us who found that it does help you through the difficulty michel years when you realize you have to work hard to earn money but we felt safer here we wanted our daughter to grow up in the countryside and we also wanted a bit of peace and quiet after new york that was very appealing. Void and. Young and that has since settled into his life on the. By now his kona Coffee Business is doing so well he bought his coffee from his friend and fellow coffee farm in diego who had picked his cherries just like yeah im going to see a new tatoo with all my Coffee Coffee and my coffee and. Demand for his brand is great and you often can no longer keep up with the production on his own it helps that many business deals can be sealed with a handshake and so the two simply agree on a trade. What sort of agreement is that. This is for my jeep right. Yeah yeah yeah i did he gets my jeep and hes giving me coffee. Is that common. Sense you get yes for a lot of things it is a lot of dough not a handshake we live on an island you cant lie or avoid people we have to trust each other and. But hes still german at heart trust is good controlling is better. He won all six one of. The baskets the ay. Unless a fair as a tooth that he found so infectious enjoying a chat with friends while he works on the plantation making Something Big out of something small thats something people learn to do in hawaii. Kona coffee is strong and exquisite and he often and his wife make a decent living from it in the door she left the island to attend university in canada. The parents are content with their aloha lifestyle here the spirit that unites people from every hawaiian island. Our next stop is in the north of. Live. Here people seem to glide through life with aids. Relief. Leave. A place. We head out to sea to meet someone for whom that is especially true and she must have a Guardian Angel this is the world of a young woman in a ocean. Waves. From the moment i first saw my share of mayberry for sharks when i was maybe seven or eight years old i was absolutely infatuated with the bunny and i ended up actually following them because theyre so unique they have a really unique presence that i dont think any other marine animal has. She studied Marine Biology and specialized. In shocks. Ocean can hold her breath for an incredible six and a half minutes like a real life mermaid she devotes herself to this underwater universe says. I think i spend more time with them but i do actually lead families and so when it turns into being your family and you get to know them individually and you get to realize how tolerant they are of humans and you get to see what theyre capable love and my level of respect for them grows every single day. Shes dedicated her life to protecting shanks and shes involved in Research Projects around the world. But she only finds aloha here in her private world off the coast of the world. She spends hours underwater every day completely through this as if she were one of them. Trying as best as they can to mimic that but also to give them the space that they just there because they realize that im getting them in their home its their environment theyre designed for and theyre much more efficient than i am as gracefully as a child is when im not as baseball as a shark maybe not as efficient in the what is the shark. Ocean once to give al crew a firsthand experience of being with the sharks she explains the rules to us as if you begin to take interest in the boat. Dont splash when youre into the water she says keep your arms tight dont splay your fingers or theyll look like squid. My carriage soon dwindles when i spy shots near the surface. Eat meat. Boston prepares to go in with some apprehension. One thing is i dont know maybe if i am in the water leak. But the spirit of aloha the sense of basic trust seem to have rubbed off on him. There are twenty six shots down there now. And i can only wonder whats going on. In the. Middle of a lot of a life sure. It isnt it a lot of. Charleston musters up the courage to dive down with the ocean. It was. Always good to see her a little bit here i get to. Spend time with in you get to see her family along with all this time instead of ensuring up and going into a managerial ace that actually it extremely important to the oceans and i think a lot of people miss that a lot of people just think john wasnt t. Been like what you usually see in the media which is and demonized in its. Its not what theyre really like. Being. Ever skinny and i havent been thinking of shards but ive definitely been scared for people because it is home for me and i love the traditional culture and the respect that it haas from mano to mano is the hawaiian name for sure. We watch in or as the ocean hangs on to the phenomena tyga shock. The world. Never ceases to amaze which is also why its so often featured in hollywood productions especially kawai the god in the time it says he lives up to its name. Eddie a blue born knows every inch of the island and yet hes always discovering something new thats his job he came here from california fifty years ago to work as a location scout for hollywood filmmakers. Nature me a lot to me in the sense that i came here because of natures beauty because of the ocean and you know ill be there to comment that live on a island to be out here in nature is just inspiring. If you look for the most beautiful locations for hollywood and goes along to the shoots. Jurassic park was filmed here as well as king kong and many others. It is. Well known in hollywood circles he lives here on kawai in a typical wooden house. Hes modest and discreet when it comes to celebrities. But he knows many and gets to know some of them well during filming. I spent two weeks every day with Robert Redfords you know and. He was different then a few and if you need Harrison Ford who is very private he did every day hed show up at six am six sam alexis coffee and we would play tennis together. But nature is more important to me than any big name. The jungle the mountains the solitary beaches. The clients feel that you are connected to everything the ocean. Earth the mountains sky. If weve learned anything from our travels about how its a sense of humility a reminder to focus on whats really important. What we have is amazing as i live in an amazing place i have the best friend to have me i could ever watch what else here really. Weve seen how powerful the force of a dream can be and how it can inspire others. One day the world will move two more years and search for peace because hawaii has a key and their key is on. Weve seen how people live in harmony with a natural surroundings. That theyre nice to get out there get immersed in it and wreak havoc and that to me thats the problem. But it but all the while you taught us that the treasure its we see can life have been all about and thats all it. After. Folks in the book of technology. The rhythm of the market wow. The momentum of the morning world. To me your masers journey seen in thirty minutes on t w. Serial killers tank busters. Violent robber gangs. An ugly and omnipresent feature of life in the one nine hundred twenty s. Program especially follows week when they find horses and then on truck out or the river spraying. But the criminals dont reckon with him detective superintendent comes cannot. 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