Archive for the 'Big Island Travel' Category

Affordable Hawaii 2008

Airfares are up, and some are worried the Hawaii tourism industry may suffer as a result. Of course travel wasn’t exactly cheap a few months ago when the industry saw a big increase in winter visitors over the previous year.
Whether or not Hawaii travel will be affected for long by the recent changes in [...]

Killer Vog?

April 10, 2008. On Tuesday a reversal of the normal tradewind pattern brought a cloud of volcanic gas (”vog” = volcanic smog) into portions of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park normally open to visitors. The Park was quickly shut down, and some two thousand visitors were quickly ushered out of the area. [...]

Aloha Airlines Shutdown!

 
March 30, 2008. All Hawaii travelers take note: Aloha Airlines

Kilauea Explosions

March 20, 2008
Kilauea volcano is showing some very interesting activity this week! Apparently a gas build-up caused some significant explosions, resulting in rocks and gravel raining down on a portion of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park normally open to visitors. As of now some trails in the park and parts of the Chain [...]