11 guides
O'ahu
Kai Makoa
Former Pipeline competitor. 22 years on the North Shore. He knows where the swell comes from.
O'ahu
Dr. James Kalani
Military historian, Oahu native. He knows which signals went unread and why it still matters.
O'ahu
Leilani Akana
Native Hawaiian educator from Waianae. Four generations of fishing the western shore. She walks Ka'ena differently.
O'ahu
Kainoa Kealoha
Voyaging canoe crew, restoration ecologist. His family has maintained a working fishpond for 800 years.
Maui
Nalani Kahananui
Born and raised in Hana. She's driven the road 2,000 times. She knows every gate, every garden, every family.
Maui
Captain Ailani Souza
Lahaina-born captain. 20 years reading the whale channel. She knows where the mothers rest with their newborns.
Maui
Captain Moana Akana
Marine biologist. 14 years of first-light Molokini. She'll name every creature you see through her waterproof slate.
Kaua'i
Captain Keoni Ferreira
Born in Hanalei. 19 years on the Nā Pali coast. He holds the access permits nobody else can get.
Kaua'i
Akoni Kamehameha
Sixth-generation kalo farmer. His family has worked Hanalei Valley since before Western contact. This is genealogy, not agriculture.
Big Island
Dr. Hana Puna
USGS volcanologist. 14 years monitoring Kīlauea. She reads eruptions the way you read faces — small signals, long history.
Big Island
Kawika Kahanamoku
Kohala cultural practitioner. His family has conducted ceremonies at Pu'ukoholā Heiau since 1791. Not a docent — a practitioner.