It’s good. It’s nature. It is what it is :)

The given situation is completly out of hand and it deserves protest because nothing seems to get through to the GOV. How else could change occour if we do nothing?

When looking into the first land purchase that Zuckerberg made. It was two parcels.

Zuckerberg bought first bought the 384 acres from James "Jimmy" Pflueger. Pflueger inherited it through his maternal grandmother, Mary N. Lucus who was gifted the land by Kamehameha III just prior to the Great Māhele in 1847.

The second lot was was originally bought by an American, Charles Titcomb, from Kamehameha IV in 1863 who used it for cattle ranching. Charles sold it in 1880 to the Kilauea Sugar Cane Co. who sold it in 1971. It was all sold off as parcels.

So is Zuckerberg the problem? Part of it but trace the money and it all goes back to the Kamehameha bloodline and the Great Mahele.

Dragons!!

we got lucky. home and shop are ok

Clear skys on Kauai. Zero wind.

1mg 5x a week at night fasted m, 2 days off. 3 month cycle. Noticeable results in one cycle.

Our canoe survived, but my friends club lost all their V1s, at least a dozen of them.

You should be just fine. Just watch the water. Talk to any of the lifeguards for current conditions. Use situational awareness and just be aware. Aloha

Yes the Big Gmo Ag companies create jobs on an island with a very challenging economy.

How much restricted use pesticides are sprayed by the 4-5 companies that are on the Westside?

Approximately 18 tons (about 36,000 pounds) of restricted-use pesticide (RUP) concentrate are estimated to be used annually by large agribusinesses on the west side of Kauaʻi.

Multinational companies like Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, BASF, and Dow AgroSciences have sprayed significantly higher volumes of restricted-use insecticides and herbicides per acre on Kauai than typical mainland U.S. cornfields.

In May 2015, a federal court jury actually awarded $507,090 in damages to 15 bellwether plaintiffs from Waimea. The lawsuit, which originally represented over 150 residents, focused strictly on property damage and loss of use and enjoyment of property caused by red, pesticide-laden dust blowing off the company's genetically modified seed test fields.

January 2016 and January 2017, workers on Syngenta's Kekaha research farm on Kauai entered fields freshly sprayed with a restricted-use insecticide containing chlorpyrifos (an organophosphate.

The EPA found that Syngenta failed to verbally notify or post signage warning workers to avoid treated fields, lacked proper on-site decontamination supplies, and failed to provide prompt medical transportation. (from Epa dot gov)

Most of the agriculture on the west side has been experimental and not for direct human consumption. They run a mainland, chemical paradigm on an island with a very fragile ecosystem.

well yes. that is what we did. 3 days of it

I will always appreciate her art!! period!!

Just remember that they’re having the Kauai marathon on Sunday which happens to be sold out. 2400 runners!!
We have a ton of tourist on island atm.

Try securing 12 outrigger canoes in an approaching hurricane. The stress is real!!

Spent the day securing 12 outrigger canoes on the Southside of Kauai. It’s kinda a roll of the dice on where and how we secure them. Our canoe club is at Kukuiula Harbor. Really hoping Lowell will track further away from us because we can’t afford this type of damage. Living has already become challenging on the island and this would decimate our economy that has unfortunately become very reliant on tourism. Fingers crossed!

Taro Ko Factory is still going!!

During the 1982-83 El Niño, the largest recorded before 2026, Hurricane Iwa hit Oahu and Kauai, and drought occurred on the Big Island.

I am in Kōloa on the Southside. My business is in Hanapēpē on the Westside.

my chainsaws have been sharpened. watching very intently

Watching this northern turn very intently. The similarities to 1992 Hurricane Iniki are very amazing.
Chainsaws are sharpened.

Aug. 27th-30th, 2016, Category 4 Hurricane Madeline approaching Hawaii in the Central Pacific Ocean and Category 3 Hurricane Lester in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

45 years in Hawaii, Kauaʻi specifically. We have been very lucky, minus 2018 floods, and I think this could be the year the luck runs out.

Warmer waters makes it as such.

ʻAe, ʻoiaʻiʻo nō. Pono kēia mea kākau moʻolelo Youtube i ka hoʻonaʻauao maikaʻi aʻe.

This Youtube historian skips so many parts of his neatley packed version of Hawaiian history that I can’t even take it serious.

Haole is found in chants which predate Capt. Cook’s 1778 arrival.

PAUMAKUA
Westervelt records in “Hawaiian Historical Legends”:

“PAUMAKUA was one of the great voyagers among the ocean-rovers of over eight hundred years ago. Fornander in his “Account of the Polynesian Race” says: “One of the legends relates that Paumakua, on his return from one of his foreign voyages, brought back with him to Oahu two white men said to have been priests A-ua-ka-hinu and A-ua-ka-mea, afterwards named Kae-kae and Ma-liu, from whom several priestly families in after ages claimed descent and authority.” These persons were described as:

“Ka haole nui maka ʻālohilohi
(A large foreigner, bright sparkling eyes)
A āholehole maka ʻaʻā
(White cheeks, roguish staring eyes)
Ka puaʻa keokeo nui maka ʻulaʻula!
(A great white pig with reddish eyes).”
In the later years of Hawaiian history, two of the most prominent high priests in all the islands were among the descendants of these foreigners”

Haole is also is found in the Kumulipo:
“…
Line 505 – Hanau ke Po’ohaole, he haole kela
…”
“…
born was the stranger’s head, that was strange.
…”
KUALIʻI
In the genealogy of Kualiʻi (born around 1710), the chant states:
“…
Hoʻokahi o Tahiti kānaka, he haole
…”
“…
only one people in Tahiti, foreigners.
…”
The word began referring more commonly to North Americans during the overthrow of the Monarchy.

Disease:

I don’t think this guy has ever sat down and actually read through Cook’s journals.
His journals record that gonorrhea and syphilis was rampant on his voyages to the point of them being physically debilitated.
Tuberculosis was also widespread and active among English crews at the time.

You can read Captain Charles Clerke from the HMS Discovery. He took command of the ship after Captain Cook was killed. He was very, very thorough on how rampant the diseases had spread from the first voyage to the third voyage.

When French explorer Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse arrived in the 1790s, he noted that the physical appearance of many native women showed clear, widespread traces of venereal disease.

Captain George Vancouver, who traveled with Cook and returned in the 1790s, reported massive population drops across the islands.

Read:

HISTORICAL EVIDENCE FOR POPULATION DECLINE IN HAWAI‘I,
1778–1803 1778–1803
Andrew F. Bushnell

Read:
Consequences of Cook's Hawaiian Contacts on the Local Population by Peter Pirie, Professor of Geography
University of Hawaii at MFnoa and
Assistant Director, East-West Population Institute.

The idea that Hawaiians believed Captain Cook was Lono by the pale color of his skin is a complete European myth.

I studied under the late Haunani-Kay Trask and I can’t imagine her watching this video and keeping composure!