Hawaii's Highway

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Most goods come to Hawaii by ship

" William Matson (1849–1917)
 was the founder
of the Matson Navigation Company.
 He was born in Lysekil in Västra Götaland
County, Sweden,
 and orphaned during childhood.
He arrived in San Francisco
after a trip around Cape Horn in 1867.
Working aboard the Spreckels family yacht,
he struck up a friendship with sugar tycoonClaus Spreckels,
 who financed many of Matson's new ships.
 In 1882 the three masted schoonerEmma Claudina
ran to the Hawaiian Islands.
The enterprise began in the carrying of merchandise,
especially of plantation stores, to the islands
and returning with cargoes of sugar. "
Wikipedia

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Click photo to see the cars aft.
Those tiny boxes amidships
tower over one's car as trucks take
them about our highways.

" Matson is credited with
 introducing mass tourism to Hawaii
 with the opening of the historic Moana Hotel
(March 11, 1901
 now known as the Moana Surfrider Hotel)
 and the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki
 on the island of Oahu. "

Wikipedia

CLICK TO ENLARGE Tiny Barge!

Barges like this one,

 towed by great oceangoing tugs,

 take goods from Honolulu Harbor

to the neighbor islands

Many shipping lines call at Honolulu

" The sincere friends of this world

 are as ship lights

 in the stormiest of nights. "

Giotto di Bondone 

Do click on photo to see
 aircraft on the runway behind ship

" Four hoarse blasts

 of a ship's whistle

 still raise the hair 

on my neck 

and set my feet 

to tapping. "

John Steinbeck 

Aircraft, 

like this jumbo military fellow,

 bring people,

and time-sensitive supplies.
Hawaiian Airlines is regularly
the most on-time airline
in America!


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