Pueo's Fotothing

Great...........lovely shot!!!

well spotted :))

This is special and beautiful!!

Great find.

Fabulous blue, and great capture!

So the big bucket with gold at the end of the rainbow was on board ?
Nice shot!

Yeah, maybe the gold ended up in some person's car in the vehicle deck below

great shot. I don't think the superferry is going to end up with gold and for the life of me I can not understand what is going on with of it. I would love to see the ferry working. I don't understand the objections.

Anytime you facilate travel to places that were previously harder to get to, people complain that they will be overrun with people that don't "appreciate" the area.

We have similar problems here on the continental side :)

Oh - Pueo: NICE shot!

Joy, the objections are mainly:
a) Non-Oahu Hawaii residents don't want the "evil" that apparently we harbor here. The traffic, the crime, real-estate development, the people crowding the surf-breaks. But what about the money, jobs, and opportunity for alternate modes of transportation? This argument is largely one where people are resistant to change.

http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/oahu.htm

b) Environmental concerns. I could go in depth about the subject because this interests me but it would take a while. Suffice to say that there are concerns of the Superferry hitting, injuring, and possibly killing whales. The ship is very large and slices through the water at around 45 miles per hour. At those speeds the Superferry could cause a lot of damage to marine life caught in its way. I actually saw dolphins on my trip to Maui. There is also the very real possibility that alien species could be carried by vehicles traveling inter-island so frequently. I don't know about you, but I would really like to keep my neighborhood coqui frog free. I'm sure Kaui would like to stay free of mongoose. The Big Island would likely prefer there not be any varroa mites attacking their bees.

c) The State of Hawaii and the Superferry on several levels just failed to follow the law. The law is clear. Whenever the State and or Federal government does a major action they are required by both Federal and State laws to conduct at the very least an Environment Assesment in order to determine if such actions would result in primary and or secondary environmental harm. The State and Federal governments erroneously waived the Environmental Assesment requirement and the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled against those waivers. If the State and the Superferry had conducted the Environmental Assesment two years ago when the issue was brought up they would have already been done at least a year ago and probably be operating right now.

http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/ferry2.htm

And now, in order to save the Superferry from its premature death, the politicians are being forced to approve a plan that lets Superferry beat the Hawaii Environmental Protection Act by allowing it to operate regardless of not having done a proper Environmental Assessment. We shall see.
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/fiasco.htm
http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/special.htm

Thank you so much for your very thoughtful explanation. I knew you could give me the straight scoop on it. Mahalo my friend...............

Loved the cartoons......... I hadn't seen them...............

The political cartoons are short and often to the point. I think Prichett gets it right much of the time.

And here's some Corky Trinidad cartoons on the subject:

On environmental impact:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/02/news/corky.html
http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/03/news/corky.html

On the EIS
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/11/news/corky.html

On Whales
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/12/news/corky.html

On Superferry officials finally talking to legislators:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/14/news/corky.html

On ferry protesters:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/19/news/corky.html

On Lingel's involvement
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/22/news/corky.html

On the political fight
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/24/news/corky.html

And... the Superferry possibly following the Pride of Aloha:
http://starbulletin.com/2007/10/10/editorial/corkyed.html

that is awesome

so this is a new thing over there! oh i hate flying and when i lived on Maui in 1990-1991 it was the only way to go from island to island and then you had to rent a car and deal with airports and YUK.... this would have been way more my speed

That's right. The Superferry is new to the islands. I sure would love to drive my car around the islands. I think it would be fun. Of course, I still think certain environmental concerns should be properly addressed before the ferry gets the green light.

Loved the catoons. I don't take the newspapers anymore since my husband passed away. I should check them on line. They really go to the core of things. Thanks so much............... mahalo