Inside the Secret Soundscape of Hawaii’s Rarest Seal

www.scientificamerican.com

Researchers uncover 20 new underwater calls from Hawaii’s endangered monk seals.

One Year After a Devastating Fire, Lahaina’s 151-Year-Old Banyan Tree Is Healing

Smithsonian Magazine

Last summer, a fire tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing more than 100 people and razing thousands of buildings and homes. The disaster was one of the deadliest wildfires in American history. The worst of the damage occurred in Lahaina, a historic town on the island’s western coast.

Mexico to Hawaii: passage report

The last of any cruising cobwebs were shaken out as we sailed Totem across a chunk of the Pacific Ocean. Our recent passage from Los Frailes, Baja California Sur to Honokōhau, Hawaii was within 100 NM of the distance we sailed from Mexico to French Polynesia. Significant!

An Ode to Lahaina

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Casual Luke Rides the Big Wave

GQ

The most remarkable day of Luke Shepardson’s life started in traffic. So much traffic. An unmoving, unending line of cars tracing the wild blue coast of the North Shore of Oahu.

Is Papahānaumokuākea lost breeding ground for endangered humpback whales?

| Is Papahānaumokuākea lost breeding ground for endangered humpback whales?

Humpback whale mother and calf. Photo: NOAA under Permit #18786-03New research by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other scientists raises an important question: Does more than one population of humpback whales occupy the Hawaiian archipelago? Whales are born to travel.

If the Ironman World Championship Doesn’t Happen in Kona, Did It Even Happen?

The highest peak of a triathlete’s career can be found along a stretch of Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. It’s a small road, one dotted with local cafes, a smattering of hotels and the Kona Farmers Market.

A Beach Lifeguard Just Won the Super Bowl of Big Wave Surfing

Outside Online

Outside's long reads email newsletter features our strongest writing, most ambitious reporting, and award-winning storytelling about the outdoors. Sign up today. Luke Shepardson took a break from his busy work schedule to win one of pro surfing’s most prestigious competitions.

Free Spirited Solo Paddler Audrey Sutherland Did the Most Important Things

Adventure Journal

The first time Audrey Sutherland explored the rugged northeast coast of Moloka’i, she swam the 20-mile stretch.

Cruising: Hawaiian Island Hop

Sail Magazine

We didn’t get off on the right foot sailing into Hawaii. It was our own fault, of course. We should have known better. It’s never a good idea to assume that just because procedures were a certain way one year, they will be the same the next.

Sailing Hawaii: A leisurely cruise around these picture-perfect volcanic islands

Yachting World

We started our Pacific voyage on board Distant Drummer, our 45ft Liberty cutter-rigged sloop, from Wellington, New Zealand, in June, 2015, bound ultimately for North America and the Pacific Northwest.

Farm-bred octopus: A benefit to the species or an act of cruelty?

Los Angeles Times

Sandwiched here between the Pacific Ocean and Kona Airport — atop a dusty volcanic desert — dozens of 50-gallon water tanks gurgle and bubble away; each home to a solitary, wild-caught octopus and a couple of floating, plastic bath toys.

A Rush to See Hawaii’s Eruption Reveals Social Fissures on the Big Island

The slow-moving lava flow from Mauna Loa’s rare eruption is drawing excited tourists, while drawing out long-simmering cultural tensions.

The political and spiritual symbolism of Mauna Loa’s historic eruption

When Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, erupted this week for the first time in almost four decades, it wasn’t just a major geological event.

Reading Joan Didion Taught Me How to Not Write About Hawaiʻi

Didion depicts Hawaiʻi as a place that exists solely in the white American imagination, and, because of this, her journalism is a fiction.I was twenty-two years old when I first read Joan Didion’s writing on Hawaiʻi. It was 2018, and I had just graduated from college.

Inside One of the Craziest Long Weekends of Lifeguard Rescues in Oahu History

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