The Pink Bunker (Battery Hulu)

Oh the places a wrong turn will take you.  While looking for the popular Pink Bunker of Puu-O-Hulu, we stumbled across an abandoned treasure. Continue reading

Lava Love

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Having missed lava sightings on our last visit to the Big Island, I could not let the opportunity elude me again.  After hearing that the lava flows had resumed at Kalapana, I had to go back to Hawaii to witness this breathtaking phenomenon. Continue reading

From Artillery to Archery

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I have recently become addicted with exploring old military bunkers. As the weekend approached, I began thinking and researching new sites that we had not yet been.  After hours of scouring the web and scanning the Island of Oahu on Google Earth, I remembered a bunker that I had driven by dozens of times. It was simply hiding in plain sight. Continue reading

Koloa Gulch (Multiple Waterfalls)

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For years I had heard of a gulch that arduously snaked through Oahu’s Koolau mountains.  If you were brave enough to endure its trek, the valley would guide you to its floodgates. Continue reading