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Maui Ocean Center Welcomes New Turtles

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Turtle CrossingI just received a note from subscribing to the Maui Ocean Center newsletter that they will be having a traditional Hawaiian blessing tomorrow, August 27th at 1pm to welcome a batch of 6 new hatchlings on loan from Sea Life Park on Oahu.

We’ve been huge fans of these guys since we first saw them popping up their heads from the water outside of our ocean front room at the Sheraton. And since we’re not avid snorkelers, we get our up-close turtle fix by visiting the Maui Ocean Center instead. Based on this update from the MOC, I think there’s a very good chance we’ll be paying them a visit next month as part of our mini Trip 5. They look too cute to pass up.

More from the newsletter:

Turtles at Maui Ocean Center
Maui Ocean Center cares for a total of 12 green sea turtles; the six new hatchlings and six which are juvenile. While at Maui Ocean Center, the turtles are fed a primarily vegetarian diet, including algae brought from the ocean, to prepare them for their eventual release to the open sea. The turtles were captive-bred at Sea Life Park on Oahu. Sea Life Park is home to a colony of adult Hawaiian green sea turtles which produces 200 to 300 hatchlings each year, most of which are released into the wild. A few of these, including the turtles at Maui Ocean Center, become part of the Hawaii Green Sea Turtle Educational Loan Program and are released at a later age to provide an educational opportunity for those that visit these institutions.

If you happen to be nearby in the next month or so, and hadn’t thought of visiting the ocean center, maybe this might change your mind.

In fact, I remember shooting video from the Turtle Lagoon exhibit at the MOC a few years ago that I posted on YouTube. Grant it, I spend way more time working with Photoshop than editing movies, so the quality has a lot to be desired, but it’s still fun. Someday I’ll get around to tweaking the quality.

In any case, here you go.

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The Road to Hana in 45 Seconds

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Okay, short story. I’m browsing through photos late last night (somewhat half asleep) and I accidently hold one of the arrow keys down during full screen mode. The result was 5-10 photos a second whizzing across my screen, which gave me the idea to create the following.

It’s sort of a silly compilation, and probably needs an epilepsy disclaimer, but I thought it was neat.

Shown here are 450 photos I took along the road to Hana this past February. None of this photos were edited other than removing all the portrait-composed shots (except for one I missed), so it’s not intended to be some lavish production. And of course, 45 seconds isn’t nearly enough to replace the experience of enjoy 2 days driving up and down the road to Hana in person, but that’s a no brainer. :)

Not Complete
If you’re an avid Hana fan like myself, you’ll probably notice there a ton of cool places missing. That’s because I only used photos from our last trip, which was our 3rd visit to Hana. As I mentioned during our vacation posts earlier in the year, we skipped many of the places we had seen before on previous vacations, so that’s why there are no photos of things like the Black Sand Beach or Ke’anae Peninsula.

Here’s the list of things you can spot if you’re quick enough.

Talk Story
Let me know what you guys think. I may play around and extend it out 90 seconds and slow down the photo rate, or maybe even go back and include photos from Hana visits passed. Keep in mind this was just a spur of the moment time of thing and not something I slaved over, so forgive some of the jerky frames, crooked horizons, etc.

Enjoy.
- Kris

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Video: Inside the Lava Tube

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

As a follow up to the Sunday Photo: Inside the Lava Tube, here is the video I shot while walking through the lava tube at the Waianapanapa State Park on Maui.

Not the best quality I could come up with on YouTube, but it should be okay for now.

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Next Round of Updates

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Aloha,

Yesterday I finally completed the first major update from our most recent trip, which were the Trip 3 Itineraries pages. While that took quite a bit of time to put together, we still have a lot more to add here.

The next planned set of updates we’re working on are the videos from this trip and maybe even reviving a few from last year, too. I spent about 4 hours yesterday trying out different apps and settings for uploading to YouTube, yet I still wasn’t happy with the results. I even tried uploading a view to Flickr, which faired a little better quality-wise, but I still need to find the sweet spot. Either way, we’re hoping to have something added soon.

After we’re finished with the videos, there are still more to update. We went to a good number of new beaches, restaurants and sights and tours that we will be adding here, and there’s still the Road to Hana Photo Tour that I’ll be putting together to match (nay, better) the one we did for the Ka’anapali Beachwalk. And then still, after all that, we’ll be finishing our Books and Music pages in the Reviews section, as well as adding new pages for our favorite websites and blogs.

It’s starting to look like a long summer of updates, so it might not be a bad idea to subscribe to our feed here at the blog to receive all the updates. With so much left to do, February (our next trip) is going to be here before we know it. :)

Mahalo.

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Whales on Parade

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Aloha Maui Fans.

So okay, the quality of this video I uploaded to YouTube isn’t the greatest. It doesn’t look as bad on my PC, so I just need to consult a few folks when I get home on what I’m doing wrong.

Anyway, this was shot from the lanai of our room at the Sheraton. It was shot on Saturday, April 19th, which is technically 4 days after the official end of whale watching season (according to the Pacific Whale Foundation). Apparently, no one told this group of whales.

To set the scene a little bit, there were about 3 or 4 sail boats out on the water, including the Teralani 3, Kapulua Kai and the Trilogy VI. They were sailing around in the area, chasing individual whales here and there. All of a sudden, a group of four whales (possibly three adults and one calf) emerged and starting heading north from Black Rock (left to right from our view on the lanai). They all starting swimming in one direction as a pack, taking turns rising up to the surface of the water and blowing water from their spouts.

About 2:30 minutes into the video, two of them simultaneously raise up with their flukes (aka tales) and dive into the water. It was truly amazing.

I took a boat load of photos, too, which I’ll go through later in the week or next, as well as one or two other videos. For all the activity we’ve seen here in mid-April, we can’t wait for what we’ll see on our next trip in February.

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