Category: Travel

Hawaii: Maui’s Haleakala Sunrise Photos & Video

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Click on the photos to view larger versions of the images. Visiting the “house of the sun” is quite an experience. Maui’s Haleakala crater sites at 10,000 feet. It’s quite a drive up from the beach – at 4:00a.m.
Mark Twain described Maui’s Haleakala Sunrise as follows:

It was the sublimest spectacle I ever witnessed, and I think the memory of it will remain with me always.

Enjoy the complete sunrise via this Maui Haleakala Crater Sunrise Movie with music. Webcam.
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My Case for Amateur Snorkeling: Maui Sea Turtle

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Floating in about 4m of water off Makena, Maui, I was startled by the sudden appearance of a sea turtle, swimming out from nearby coral. He was less than 1 meter in front of me, as this 7MB Quicktime movie shows.
I was later told that some people feed them hot dogs, which unfortunately explains his proximity. I was advised to keep an eye on my fingers. Screen saver jpeg sea turtle image (215K). The images were captured with a Canon S70 digital camera and a WP-DC40 underwater case.

Shooting the Tube: Hawaii Surf Photographer Don King

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Derek Farrar:

King is particularly proud of a recent project, Stacy Peralta?s big-wave surfing documentary Riding Giants, which this year became the first documentary ever to open the Sundance Film Festival. The film features King?s footage of tow-in avatar Hamilton surfing sixty-foot beasts at Jaws. “It was one of the best swells there ever,” King remembers. “Perfect, perfect waves, and super huge. Riding Giants is a really entertaining, well-made film, and the stuff we shot that day is some of the most amazing surfing I?ve ever been part of. It still takes my breath away.”

The Art of Running A Small Business: Big Island Eco-Tours

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This work marks the beginning of a periodic series this site will publish on interesting small business owners. Small business, as many know, are the engines behind real job growth. Put simply, we need more people to get creative, chase their dreams and start a business (triple this need in the rust belt where traditional manufacturing jobs are going away).
Today’s 3 degree (did it get that warm?) Madison weather means it’s time to visit Kona, Hawaii and take a look at Dan McSweeney’s: Captain Dan’s Eco-Tours. Or, perhaps more appropriately, the art and study of whale watching. Dan has taken his passion – marine biology – and made a life’s work out of it along with a real business. He also brings a certain art, or style to the whale watch process.
Read on…..