Gilligan’s Island

Gilligan’s Island was Originally Posted on March 1, 2004 by lavarock

Although the opening scenes of Gilligans Island TV show were filmed on Honolulu and Kauai, that is close enough…

“The weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed”

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/daily/2004/Feb-29-Sun-2004/news/news1.html

After this weekends storm, we lost at least two other ships in Kailua-Kona bay. There is a harbor up the coast, but it serves fishing vessels. Besides, ships like to drop anchor in our bay.

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/daily/2004/Feb-29-Sun-2004/news/news2.html

Some pictures will be temporarily on display at: http://www.konaweb.com/current

A plane got struck during the wild lightning:

“A Hawaiian Airlines passenger jet on a flight from Portland, Oregon, was struck by lightning Friday (February 27, 2004) and was forced to make an emergency landing at Kona International Airport in Keahole.

The plane landed safely. There were no reported injuries, and damages to the plane were not immediately known.

Hawaiian Airlines Flight 26 was about 12 miles of Kona on a flight to Honolulu about 2:50 p.m. when lightning struck its nose, causing the instrument panel to malfunction.

The Boeing 767 with 270 passengers and 19,000 pounds of fuel aboard made an emergency landing safely at the Kona International Airport.

No other details were immediately available.”

Then in an unrelated incident, a guy drove his SUV into the airline terminal over on Maui and set the vehicle on fire.

Due to the storm and rain and cold weather, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea got a dose of snow. It is viewable from sea level, but for those willing to view it close up, this is what it would look like. Keep in mind that this is a current view and if you view this much later, the snow will have melted. http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JAClocal/cgi-bin/irtvid

On a quieter front, I had an idea for a way to promote Kona Coffee. See? We place labels on the bags that say “100% Kona Coffee”. Well, in the TV ad, we have workers coming down the aisles of coff trees singing… “LOOK for the KONA label, when you are buying a bag of our brew…” You don’t think the UNION people will get upset if we use their idea, do you?

Aloha from the Kona side of Paradise!