It’s the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count. We meet at sunrise at Shipwreck’s Beach parking lot with Adrian Burke, an ARC Seabird Technician (Archipelago Research & Conservation). He’s from the Big Apple with a BS in biology and two-and-a-half-years experience on Kauai. Jenn Rothe, Field Crew Lead with ARC who we did the Christmas Bird […]
We bought four timeshare weeks at Lawai Beach Resort several years ago and it’s our go-to place come December. Despite being both the holiday and the rainy season, it still has five ‘Why Kauai?’ calling cards… Why Kauai? Weather Kauai is the northwestern-most island of the Hawaiian chain encircling one of the wettest spots on […]
Bird-watching is the most popular recreation in America, and the Audubon Bird Count summons us every December to the Christmas Bird Count on the ‘Garden Isle’ of Kauai in the Hawaiian Archipelago. With David Kuhn, creator of the website, ‘Sounds Hawaiian’, we add native forest birds to our count. Kuhn leads us into the Alakai […]
Hawaiian Culture, Kauai’s South Shore As a tourist, garden volunteer and longtime repeat visitor at the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) on Kauai’s South Shore, Hawaii, I’m excited about the NTBG golden anniversary year, 2014. Renewal is brewing in the gardens. Andy Jasper, NTBG South Shore Director of Gardens, wears enough hats to make that […]