12 Outrigger canoe surfing
Catching waves is easier with five others helping you paddle. Share the stoke!
13 Mālama Wao Akua
Thirteen years ago the East Maui Watershed Partnership had the brilliant notion of marrying art and conservation. A juried exhibit was born, showcasing Hawaiian flora and fauna. Every year since, local artists have outdone themselves, bringing some of the world’s rarest species to life in clay, pigment, pixel, glass and kapa (Hawaiian barkcloth). Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center hosts the show.
14 Kaho‘olawe Restoration
For 200 years, this wahi pana, or “place of legends,” endured injury after injury. Free-ranging goats and cattle nibbled its vegetation down to a nub. The military bombed it. Wind blew its topsoil into the sea. In 1976, the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana (PKO) launched a dramatic protest against military occupation of the island. Eighteen years later the U.S. government finally returned Kahoʻolawe to the people of Hawai‘i. Since then, volunteers with PKO and the Kahoʻolawe Island Reserve Commission have devoted their blood, sweat, and tears to resuscitating its shattered ecosystem. It’s working. Native trees and shrubs are taking root, and the rare Hawaiian bat has recently been seen soaring overhead.