Hawaii Vacations Blog - Hawaii Travel by a Hawaii Expert!

THE ISLANDSThe islands you are likely to visit on a roundtrip Honolulu cruise and cruises to-and-from the West Coast are Oahu (Honolulu), Maui, the Big Island (ports of Kona & Hilo), Kauai and even Fanning Island in the Republic of Kiribati. Lanai and Molokai are typically only available as shore excursions from the main islands. [...]

When Captain James Cook arrived in Hawaii in 1778 that was a relatively easy question to answer. There were, depending on the various estimates available, between 300,000 and 400,000 kanaka maoli - native Hawaiians.  Over the course of the next century the native Hawaiian population dropped drastically after more contact with foreigners. By 1878, the [...]