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HAWAII ISLAND CHARITY WALK: May 13, 2023 at Waikoloa Beach Resort, Queen’s Marketplace
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Since 1979, Hawaiʻi Island has raised more than $5.3 million to support hundreds of diverse non-profit organizations on the island. The public is always invited to participate in this annual event which typically features a morning of delicious food, fun, fabulous entertainment, and a little exercise to help charities within our community.
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This is the link. Once Members go to the page, we can fill out the following form. We can join the Four Seasons Team or create our own team to donate.
Run @ 6.45am | Walk 7.30am | Onsite registration opens at 5:30 am
It was a beautiful way to celebrate the first of May. Chatting with friends, old and new, in the warm morning sun while viewing the beautiful lei made by Hualalai folks. Auntie Kaulu performed hula while Micah played ukulele. Uncle Earl came too! Thank you Hualalai Cultural Center and Ka’ai McAfee-Torco.
Lei lovers come celebrate May Day at Hualalai Cultural Center.
Sunrise and Sunset by Bill McDowell
Welcome back to the updated Hualalai Members Blog!! The way it is now set up, I will do two blog posts a week.
NERD TALK:
Friday, April 28 | 10:30 AM
at Kumu Kai Marine Center at King’s Pond
NERD TALK: “Try Wait”
An Exploration of the Ka‘ūpūlehu Marine Reserve
and Updates for 2023
Nicky Tachibana has been a part of the Four Seasons Hualālai’s Natural Resources Team of marine biologists for the past 13 years. As a team, the marine biologists maintain the ponds, raise oysters and shrimp for the Resort restaurants, assist with the monitoring of the coastlines and provide educational opportunities for visitors and residents.
Growing up on the island of Molokai, Nicky has had a unique opportunity to connect with the natural world within a small island community. She took her passion for nature and animals to the University of Hawaii at Hilo and graduated with her Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science. While working here at the Four Seasons Hualalai, she has had the opportunity to further her education with a Master’s degree in Education for Teaching Science from Concordia University Oregon and has become a Certified Interpretive Guide through the National Association For Interpretation. She loves taking science and making it fun, exciting and “digestible” for everyone!
Please join her at the Kumu Kai Marine Center to learn more about “Try Wait” and the process of creating a sustainable management plan for the coastline here at Hualālai Resort. To make a reservation for this event, please visit the Kumu Kai Marine Center at King’s Pond
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Member Reception: May 8 Hoku Amphitheater
The Hoku Theatre grounds: natural environment undisturbed
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| A SPECIAL NOTE FROM ERIN LEE
Our signature Wiliwili (Erythrina sandwicensis) Tree at the
Hualālai entry monument fell in very strong winds on the evening of March 10th. This tree was originally transplanted to Hualālai about 23 years ago from the dryland forest surrounding the Waikoloa area. It had been declining over many years despite surviving a long battle with the Wiliwili Gall Wasp and most recently, a colony of bees that had made a home in its hollow trunk. Unfortunately, once we were able to closely inspect the tree, we confirmed that it was clearly not salvageable.
This past Tuesday, the tree was removed with the plan for a replacement tree that will take its place as soon as we are able to select a new Wiliwili tree. When choosing our new tree, great care and environmental consideration will be considered. We are happy to report that in this process, this tree will not be harvested from the wild. Ka’aiohelo, from our Hualālai Cultural Center has also helped us get in contact with a reputable cultural practitioner who will be able to repurpose any of the remaining viable wood from the original tree. The light wood of the Wiliwili Tree was used by traditional craftsmen to make surfboards, net floats and ama (outriggers) for canoes!
– Erin Lee
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Check out artist Becky Holman’s new boxes in the Hualalai Pro Shop! Below are two of them.
 
Since early March, the blog was not being sent out to subscribers even though I was publishing it. Thanks to Mike Sack for helping me research the problems. I believe he found the solution Thursday morning. So hopefully, you will find this in your mailbox bright and early this morning! Full disclosure, your editor was also traveling with family so could not get access to my computer or Mike! We would have cleared it up earlier I believe if I wasn’t so jetlagged after hitting the Metro with my kids and grandkids!
sunset photo by Bill McDowell
After technical difficulties and your editor’s journey, there have been no posts. But here we go! Hopefully!
Even though Kilauea is on pause, no one can forget its paths of fire.
photo by Bill McDowell
Hualalai Club members visited Three-Ring Ranch recently.
photo montage by Diane Kantor
True winter is here for the first time in several years. Hualalai is a vortex of beauty for the “chilly” weather. Thanks to Bob Holman for the Mauna Kea view from Hualalai golf course. Thanks to David Taran for the sunset photo taken between the tropical downpours. Thanks to Pam Krug for the photo of the egret in her pond. Thanks to Eva Shulman for the hunting heron photo on Waiakauhi Pond.
True winter is here for the first time in several years. Hualalai is a vortex of beauty for the “chilly” weather. Thanks to Bob Holman for the Mauna Kea view from Hualalai golf course. Thanks to David Taran for the sunset photo taken between the tropical downpours. Thanks to Pam Krug for the photo of the egret in her pond. Thanks to Eva Shulman for the hunting heron photo on Waiakauhi Pond.
photo by Chris Hattasch
Mauna Kea has had its share of snows as Bill McDowell’s photo shows.
Driving back from Kona to Hualalai: Interesting cloud formations on March 6th.
photos by Bill McDowell
Sunsets, the stars and the moon all glow over Hualalai in March.
photo by Eva Shulman
photos by Chris Hattasch
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The first photo is from my Sky Walk App on Wednesday night, March 1. The photo below it shows Jupiter and Venus in the sky from the Canoe Club. How lucky are we that at Hualalai we get to witness such wondrous sights!!!
