Big Island beach with giant surf This photo is as if you can put your hand through it and touch the beach. We're looking at an "huge" day of surf as you can see a wave crashing into the cliff probably over 100 feet high. Enjoy! 13.01.29_27 by Rose Braverman is licensed under CC
There are cautions at beaches in Hawaii, even though long sandy shores seem harmless and easy. Rough surf and undertows can take a person by surprise and unexpectedly drag them out; fighting a current is futile so you need to know these things before you go. 1. Big surf Beaches that are overlooked by lifeguards
Be careful when in Hawaiian waters! Hawaii is a deceptively dangerous place and whenever you're in the water you have to exercise extreme caution. In this case a 56-year-old snorkeler was found unconscious in the water off Makaha Beach Park just after 9 a.m. They don't know how he got into trouble and he's in
I wrote a story about one time going to a beach which I consider to be Hawaii's most dangerous. Can you guess which it is? Does this photo give you any clues? Waves don't break like this all over the islands! CLICK HERE to see the article about the most dangerous beach in the Hawaiian
A shark has just caused Hawaii's first shark fatality for the year on the island of Maui. The attack happened south of Wailea and Makena beaches at the amazing snorkeling spot - Kanahena Cove, part of Ahi'i Kinau Natural Reserve. Map image courtesy Google maps. Kihei, Maui area where shark attack occurred. A
Damon Tucker has a popular page over at his website DamonTucker.com where he lists missing persons on the Big Island. This is one topic that really hits me hard, and I hope to never experience anything like this for a member of my family or my friends. If you live on the Big Island of
Sure there are bugs! There are good bugs and bad bugs. Luckily Hawaii doesn't have too many bad insects and other creepy crawlies to be aware of, but there are some. Surprisingly, or not, there are a lot of people that are deathly afraid of bugs - even those that can't really cause much grief.
A major 7.7 earthquake in British Columbia, Northeastern Canada has triggered a possible tsunami wave that will be making it's way to Hawaii at nearly 600 MPH. Clear the coastal areas. Some reports have the waves at around 6 feet. Some say there will be 6 inch ripples. You never know, it's not an exact
Big waves are nothing to play with. I learned that when I tried to go from 6 footers to 12, and 15-20 feet waves showed up in a killer set and wrecked me. Though I've caught some amazing big waves before, the kind that are huge - 10+ feet and break slowly (so I can
Hawaii Water Dangers Approximately 7 million people per year visit our Hawaiian islands. I wish all of them could read this list of cautions – because it would save them some trouble, sometimes without much effort. Hawaii is different from where you grew up, wherever that is. The ocean and other weather events can be
Image is in public domain. Hawaii Hurricanes In recent memory, and since Hawaii became one of the United States, there were a couple of hurricanes that tore through Hawaii. There was a lot of devastation and some people even died as a result. The hurricanes were Hurricane Iwa on 11/23/1982 which hit Oahu,
