Spring, March 2007

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Getting Good and Dirty

Volunteering on Vacation—Hawai‘i’s Newest Travel Trend

 

 

Photography by Franco Salmoiraghi  |  Jason Moore  |  Forest and Kim Starr Sierra Club’s Hawai‘i Trip Program  |  Ron Dahlquist


Catching a chopper to Kaho‘olawe.

Before heading to breakfast, I spend a moment watching dark, grey dolphins leap and dive in the clear blue water. Empty, golden Honokanaia Beach stretches out invitingly beneath Kaho‘olawe’s Navy camp, my home for the week. I grab my pack from my bunk, feeling like a superhero—at the very least, a tough-but-sexy character in a James Bond flick—and join the others scarfing down fish and rice in the mess hall. Wow. A private dolphin show and fresh mahi for breakfast? I can hardly believe my luck. Just how did I earn this all-expenses-paid trip to a remote and restricted Hawaiian Island? I simply offered to help.

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