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Who writes this
Everything published about The North Shore on this site carries a name. Here is who those names belong to, what each of them covers, and how to read everything they have written.
Nalani Kahale
Senior Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Getting Around, Day Trips
Nalani edits everything on this site that touches access, closures and how a visitor ought to behave up here. She grew up between Waialua and Honolulu and has spent a decade on Hawaiʻi visitor coverage. She reads state park and Ocean Safety notices before she reads anyone's marketing, and spells place names the way the families who live in them do.
4 guides · 2 news posts
Pete Sorensen
Surf & Ocean Editor
Beat: Best Time to Visit, Beaches, Snorkelling
Pete checks the buoys before the weather app and has watched fifteen winters arrive on this coast. He covers the water: the swell calendar, the contest windows, where a beginner should genuinely learn, and the summer months when Pūpūkea becomes the best shore snorkelling on this side of Oʻahu. He will tell you plainly when to stay out.
2 guides · 4 news posts
Malia Fonoti
Culture & Community Editor
Beat: Free Things to Do, Things to Do, With Kids
Malia writes about how this coast lives and what it remembers: the heiau on the ridge above Waimea, the plantation towns at Waialua and Kahuku, the island villages at Lāʻie, and the small kitchens that stop serving at eight. She puts names in her copy rather than categories, and when a business up here is Native Hawaiian-owned she says so, because a visitor can act on that.
4 guides · 2 news posts
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