Major Renovation Completed at Lava Lava Beach Club Lava Lava Beach Club has long been the go-to spot in Waikoloa Beach Resort for locals and visitors seeking a laidback meal or cocktail at Anaeho`omalu Bay. It’s a rare place where…
Many indigenous cultures across the world believe that animals have spiritual significance in our lives. In North America, for example, the Lakota people believed strongly that certain animals were conduits to the powers of the natural universe and that those…
Waikoloa Solar + Storage Project beams a cleaner future Carefully positioned in neat rows in the foothills above Waikoloa Village - seven miles mauka of Waikoloa Beach Resort — 94,000 solar panels and 26 battery energy storage containers strategically soak…
Thos Rohr - Friend, Advocate, and Trailblazer Waikoloa Beach Resort, the Island of Hawai`i, and the Aloha State lost a great friend, an advocate, and a trailblazing resort development visionary on Nov. 10, 2022, when Thomas Anthony “Thos” Rohr passed…
A Story of Eternal Love The logo for Waikoloa Beach Resort — the naupaka flower — is at its core a symbol of hope and eternal love. Like many stories from Hawai`i’s mythology, the story of the naupaka flower is…
As reported on NASA’s Earth Observatory website, on Sept. 10, 2022, an underwater volcano in the Home Reef seamount in the Central Tonga Islands began to erupt. It “repeatedly oozed lava, ejected plumes of steam and ash, and discolored the…
These Donkeys Own an Important Piece of Big Island History The donkeys proved to be invaluable for the coffee farmers for more than 100 years, packing loads of coffee cherries from the rugged mountainside fields down to the drying and…
The tagline for Waikoloa Beach Resort is “The Gathering Place of the Kohala Coast,” and it is well earned. With more shops, restaurants, and cultural activities than anywhere else along the stretch of coastline from the airport to Kawaihae, there…
The Inaugural Waikoloa Lei Day Festival Lei-making is one of the oldest traditions in Polynesia, having come to Hawai`i along with the seafaring people who also brought canoe plants, tool-making knowledge, and deep-rooted cultural practices from other parts of the…
Manaola Yap was brought up in an artistic family. His mother is kumu hula Nani Lim-Yap and his uncle, Sonny Lim, is a renowned singer and musician, to name but two members of the talented North Kohala family. Manaola himself…