Before the Moana and the Royal Hawaiian, Waikīkī was 2,000 acres of loʻi, fishponds, and rice paddies. Here is how the Ala Wai Canal drained it between 1921 and 1928, and what that shortcut still costs. The post Waikīkī Before the Resorts: How the Ala Wai Canal Drained a Hawaiian Wetland (1921-1928) appeared first on […]
Daily Archives: September 14, 2026
The west side of Oʻahu bakes in a way the rest of the island does not. Wet’n’Wild Hawaii in Kapolei is the one place out there where that is the whole point. Twenty-nine acres (12 hectares) of slides, a wave pool the size of a small harbor, and a lazy river that does the parenting […]