This past weekend, my team and I played in the 2011 Barrio Fiesta Fil-am Maui Basketball Tournament. The last two tournaments we’re won by us and no team has ever gone for the three peat…until now. It was our teams 3rd championship in a row and my first Maui title with the team. Got’em!
Jimi Hendrix live at the Rainbow Bridge Vibratory Color Sound Experiment, Haleakala Crater,Maui, Hawaii, 30 July 1970. Photo credit: rising70
Rainbow Bridge is marketed as a Jimi Hendrix film, however Jimi apparently shows up only during the end of the film – the rest of the subject matter revolves around actress Pat Hartley and her enigmatic “spiritual awakening” via a visit to the ‘Rainbow Bridge’ planetary meditation cult on Maui. The actual concert, which was dubbed the Rainbow Bridge show was free to the public and held in a horse pasture on the interior of the slopes of Maui’s Haleakala, July 30, 1970. Two days later, Hendrix performed another show in Honolulu (Waikiki Shell), which was also the last leg of his Cry of Love tour with a refined Jimi Hendrix Experience ensemble, in turn, performing two entirely separate shows in Hawai’i. Hit the jump beneath the surface for videos of three performances of his Maui concert.
Releasing Saturday, August 8th.
A few nights ago I was watching a program on Nat Geo that discussed the remarkable unique species of fish and other wildlife that live and flourish in the Northern Hawaiian islands (which stretches approximately 1500 miles from The Big Island up). Having not been touched by human civilization, they discussed how each individual island has its own ecosystem, in turn each island having its own species. No cross breeding. Immaculate and untouched for decades. This just goes to show how our islands yield wildlife that are only found on our islands. Another example is the silversword (sometimes known as greenswords). This species of plant is endemic to Hawai’i because of the climates they need to survive: 4,900 feet above sea level in alpine deserts “indicating an adaption to low-nutrient soils.” The Ka’u (Mauna Loa silversword) can be found in rocky lava flows, bogs and open forests. Because of their limited environment for survival and being susceptible to damage by goats, pigs and other invasive species of animals and plants, they’ve ended up on the endangered species list. “Their shallow root systems are easily crushed in the boggy soil or loose volcanic cinders they grown in.”
