Shootz! Smooth Sailing And Other Honolulu Scenes

Strikers, surfers, sailors, a podcaster and fire investigators do their things around Oahu.

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Strikers, surfers, sailors, a podcaster and fire investigators do their things around Oahu.

A couple of proud owners of new Gerry Lopez surfboards cruise Ala Wai Boulevard on Sunday. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Local 5 union members march between Waikiki hotels Sunday during a three-day strike to protest working conditions. (David Croxford Civil Beat 2024)
Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Anton Krucky along with several city officials and members of the City & County C.O.R.E. team gathered at Honolulu Hale to inaugurate a bus into the C.O.R.E. fleet of vehicles aimed at transporting homeless individuals to semi permanent and permanent care facilities around the island and also responding to major disasters as they ocurr. As one official said, “We aim to get people off the streets and into clean sheets”. The bus can move up to 12 people in beds and another 17 seated to facilities readied to receive candidates. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Mayor Rick Blangiardi and other city officials and members of Honolulu’s Crisis Outreach Response and Engagement (C.O.R.E.) team gather at Honolulu Hale on Tuesday to inaugurate a new bus into the C.O.R.E. fleet of vehicles designed to help transport homeless individuals to semi-permanent and permanent care facilities. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Mayor Rick Blangiardi, Anton Krucky along with several city officials and members of the City & County C.O.R.E. team gathered at Honolulu Hale to inaugurate a bus into the C.O.R.E. fleet of vehicles aimed at transporting homeless individuals to semi permanent and permanent care facilities around the island and also responding to major disasters as they ocurr. As one official said, “We aim to get people off the streets and into clean sheets”. The bus can move up to 12 people in beds and another 17 seated to facilities readied to receive candidates. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
The bus can transport up to 12 people in beds — as a C.O.R.E. employee demonstrated — and another 17 seated passengers. “We aim to get people off the streets and into clean sheets,” said Anton Krucky, director of the Department of Community Services. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
Tristan Powers of Honolulu finds an outdoor office to work on a podcast Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu. His podcasts are launched from his X account @Tristan_Powers1. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Tristan Powers of Honolulu works on a podcast Wednesday at an outdoor office he assembled at Ala Moana Beach Park in Honolulu. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Honolulu Fire Department investigators enter a fire scene Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, at a moving company in Kapolei. Honolulu Police Department also had an investigator on scene. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
Investigators from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Honolulu Fire Department enter a fire scene Thursday at a moving company in Kapolei. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)
University of Hawaii Rainbow Sailing team prepares for its first set of races in California practicing in the area around Mokauea Island in Sand Island, Wednesday September 4th, 2024 (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
The University of Hawaii sailing team prepares for its first set of races in California by practicing Wednesday near Mokauea Island. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
University of Hawaii Rainbow Sailing team prepares for its first set of races in California practicing in the area around Mokauea Island in Sand Island, Wednesday September 4th, 2024 (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
UH sailing team members put away one of their boats after the practice. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024
The 2 day old waxing crescent moon set on 9.5.24 at 8:22pm but before it dipped below the horizon for another evening, it showed off some of it’s fabulous craters along it’s edge.(David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)
A 2-day-old waxing crescent moon set Thursday evening, but before it dipped below the horizon on Oahu it showed off some of its craters. More celestial events are in the offing, inlcuding a penumbral partial lunar eclipse Sept. 17 and a partial annular eclipse of the sun Oct. 2. (David Croxford/Civil Beat/2024)

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