Geocaching Thursday with the boys in Hilo and West Hawaii. Found one geocache at the Panaewa Zoo. Repaired a cache we found missing before. The cache owner moved to the mainland so we did a little volunteer work putting a new cache in this spot. Then on to West Hawaii were I created a brand-new [...]
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Where is the world is Steve Fossett?
Missing since September 3rd in a single-engine airplane Steve Fossett went down somewhere in Nevada. Once can only assume he crashed as an intact aircraft would have probably been spotted by now unless he went into water. From the many crashes I’ve covered for newspapers I predict it will have been a crash on land. [...]
I can see clearly now
Wow! Google Earth recently updated their sat map database and images of Kona are much clearer. Now you can make out our building. My car might even be in the parking lot but it’s hard to tell which white car is mine.
Al-Zarqawi Safe House via Google Earth?
So this is a still frame from the Defense Dept video of the bomb strike on Al-Zarqawi. Here’s a zip file of the KMZ Google Earth reference that appears to be the location though I’m not certain of it. Here’s the area as I’m guesstimating on Google Earth. Do we have winner?
Winging over Waipio
Today work took me flying over Waimea, over Waipio Valley and back. Seeing the island from the air is a great way to see things. Here we leave Waipio Valley flying over Kukuihaele back to the Waimea-Kohala airport. You’ll have to see the Sunday, May 23rd West Hawaii Today to see why I was in [...]
