Hawai‘i Love Legends
By Jan TenBruggencate 'Princess Kaia,' a modern artistic portrait shot by Daniel Finchum, exploring Hawaiian history and culture. Finchum uses wet plate collodion, a photographic technique developed in...
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By Jan TenBruggencate Margaret Lovett is seen here with a stalk of Makaloa. Photo by Jan TenBruggencate When the community group Mālama Hulē‘ia began removing weedy mangrove from a two-acre plot...
View ArticleOuch! Those Stinging Portuguese Man-of-War
By Jan TenBruggencate A Portuguese man-of-war. Photo courtesy of NOAA Everybody’s got a theory on how to treat jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war stings, but most of those treatments don’t work....
View Article‘Opihi
By Jan TenBruggencate These examples of the three edible Hawaiian ‘opihi are all of legal size for harvesting. At top, with green border, is makaiauli; right with yellow foot, is ‘alinalina; left, with...
View ArticleAlakoko Fishpond
By Jan TenBruggencate Menehune Fishpond There are lots of versions of the story about the building of the Alakoko Fishpond. It is an island feature full of mystery and misinformation. The pond along...
View ArticleKnocking on Hardwood
A new coffee table design Joe Sullivan calls his Rollerglide Revolver. It is stable because of the weight of a recycled truck disk brake drum. Its wood base spins in a lathe-turned groove filled with...
View ArticleSunscreen Dangers
By Jan TenBruggencate xWaters sampled off Po‘ipū Beach in 2016 showed levels of oxybenzone of 281-419 parts per trillion, above the 72 parts per trillion that is considered harmful to coral cells....
View ArticleJewels of Nature
By Jan TenBruggencate The Koki‘o (Hibiscus kokio subspecies saintjohnianus) is found only in the rugged mountains of northwestern Kaua‘i, in pockets of mesic forest and shrubland on steep cliffs along...
View ArticleNo Footprints
By Jan TenBruggencate A turtle on a deserted beach. Photo by Jan TenBruggencate Years ago, I wrote a story in the old Honolulu Advertiser about a Kaua‘i beach without footprints. It was just a few...
View ArticleWalk Toward a Better Health
By Jan TenBruggencate Officials untie the maile lei during the blessing of three new segments of Ke Ala Hele Makalae, Kaua'i’s multi-use path in 2013. From left: Steve Baginski, president and CEO,...
View ArticleHawai‘i Love Legends
By Jan TenBruggencate 'Princess Kaia,' a modern artistic portrait shot by Daniel Finchum, exploring Hawaiian history and culture. Finchum uses wet plate collodion, a photographic technique developed in...
View ArticleThe Return of the Makaloa
By Jan TenBruggencate Margaret Lovett is seen here with a stalk of Makaloa. Photo by Jan TenBruggencate When the community group Mālama Hulē‘ia began removing weedy mangrove from a two-acre plot...
View ArticleOuch! Those Stinging Portuguese Man-of-War
By Jan TenBruggencate A Portuguese man-of-war. Photo courtesy of NOAA Everybody’s got a theory on how to treat jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war stings, but most of those treatments don’t work....
View Article‘Opihi
By Jan TenBruggencate These examples of the three edible Hawaiian ‘opihi are all of legal size for harvesting. At top, with green border, is makaiauli; right with yellow foot, is ‘alinalina; left, with...
View ArticleAlakoko Fishpond
By Jan TenBruggencate Menehune Fishpond There are lots of versions of the story about the building of the Alakoko Fishpond. It is an island feature full of mystery and misinformation. The pond along...
View ArticleKnocking on Hardwood
A new coffee table design Joe Sullivan calls his Rollerglide Revolver. It is stable because of the weight of a recycled truck disk brake drum. Its wood base spins in a lathe-turned groove filled with...
View ArticleSunscreen Dangers
By Jan TenBruggencate xWaters sampled off Po‘ipū Beach in 2016 showed levels of oxybenzone of 281-419 parts per trillion, above the 72 parts per trillion that is considered harmful to coral cells....
View ArticleJewels of Nature
By Jan TenBruggencate The Koki‘o (Hibiscus kokio subspecies saintjohnianus) is found only in the rugged mountains of northwestern Kaua‘i, in pockets of mesic forest and shrubland on steep cliffs along...
View ArticleNo Footprints
By Jan TenBruggencate A turtle on a deserted beach. Photo by Jan TenBruggencate Years ago, I wrote a story in the old Honolulu Advertiser about a Kaua‘i beach without footprints. It was just a few...
View ArticleWalk Toward a Better Health
By Jan TenBruggencate Officials untie the maile lei during the blessing of three new segments of Ke Ala Hele Makalae, Kaua'i’s multi-use path in 2013. From left: Steve Baginski, president and CEO,...
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