Rebecca Francesca Reuter Puerto
Screenwriter, travel writer, marine biologist
My first trip to the Islands was back in 1992. It was to the Big Island. One of my most vivid memories of that trip was the perfumed air. It wasn't the smell of that so-called "fresh scent" that humans have tried to make out of synthetic or petroleum based products that cling to your... Continue Reading →
Traffic. It is the plague of the modern world. It even exists on this small dot in the middle of the grand Pacific Ocean. Thanks to a little research and asking friends who live in Oahu, I learned how to avoid standstill traffic. It takes me 32 minutes to drive the 14 miles to work.... Continue Reading →
Aloha Festival's 70th annual floral parade was today. I took the bus from Kailua all the way to Honolulu (a little over an hour, but air conditioned!). There were marching bands, people in cars driving by and waving or shaka-ing. But my favorite were the Pa'u riders.... Continue Reading →
On my beach walk this morning I realized I was walking between two worlds. Where the ocean and land meet. Then I thought about how perhaps we all are walking between two worlds. Or many worlds. And perhaps those worlds are only different perspectives of the same world. The ocean and land are part of... Continue Reading →
Sprinkles of tropical rain greeted me on my predawn beach walk. I went a different route, in search of a different beach access point. Ocean trash today... No these are not laundry baskets. They are baskets used on fishing boats to cart fish around deck. I know this because I was a fishery observer on a... Continue Reading →
A predawn walk along the beach is a great way to start the day. I always like to look for treasures washed ashore at the high tide line. Typically, I'm looking for critters like sand dollars (which I found a few weeks ago on a beach walk with my niece at Ocean beach in San... Continue Reading →
One hundred pounds of stuff I think I will need during my 90-days in paradise. I'll be in Oahu for a rotational assignment with my agency. It will be an adventure, it will be a learning experience, and it will be a dream come true. This micro-blog will document the next 90-days of living, working,... Continue Reading →
An hour after enjoying a lovely sunset, we are now in the midst of a tsunami warning. After a 7.7 earthquake off of the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia Canada. I am in Waikiki, on the 17th floor of a condo that is not in the inundation zone that requires mandatory evacuation. Traffic is... Continue Reading →
Tropical sunsets, palm trees, warm breeze, mai tai in hand, ukulele playing in the background. We all dream about them, some of us have experienced them. Watching the sun setting below the ocean filled horizon is the vision many of us have of pure relaxation, pure connection with a... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Francesca Reuter Puerto 