While the Pacific sporting world was focusing on the Pacific Games in Honiara, another international sporting spectacle is taking place on Rarotonga this week - an event with distinctly Pacific roots.
A public rally will be held today to protest what many believe is a state-level action to do away with free recreational parking at the popular, state-controlled Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor.
A permit renewal for the weekly Friday night fireworks display off Waikiki ignited a broader discussion at Friday’s Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting about environmental stewardship and fireworks in local culture.
Hawaii Magazine
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Paddle the Kaiwi Channel
The determined all-female paddling crews who were first to dare the Molokai to Oahu crossing, a race once restricted to men.
Sep 12, 2017
Considered the pinnacle of long-distance Hawaiian outrigger canoe racing, the Kaiwi Channel is a grueling 41-mile stretch of open ocean separating the Hawaiian Islands of Molokai and Oahu. In Hawaiian,
ka iwi suitably means “the bone” it takes every muscle and fiber of the human body to complete, a reminder that, when one’s physicality is stripped away and tested, our ka iwi is truly all we are.