Pohoiki Boat Ramp or Swim Ramp?

[Beachboy]

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Please remember that Puna is growing and we all know this, a couple years down the road what are we going to do when someone with big money, any of the big guys Roberts Hawaii, Jacks Tours, Fairwinds, decides to start running boat opps out of Pohoiki. It has just been a matter of time, I waited over 5 years to start the lava tour, why had to save enough money to get going, needed to obain proper licensing, needed to make sure Pele was going to contiue her part, and wanted to make sure that we could opperate around fishermens schedule to make the harbor as uncrowded as possible. With more people using the ramp nowadays is time to address the issues at hand.

Shane Turpin
Lava Ocean Adventures

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so you figure Roberts Hawaii or any other tour group is gonna jump on this lucrutive goal mine, so you two will jump first? I seriously doubt Roberts Hawaii or any other tour group is gonna touch that with a ten ft pole! Again Liabilty being the main factor, enviornment being second. Pohoiki is the only place you two are considering to operate out of?

Listen Shane, I'm not trying to be an A--hole here. I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from. I guess different strokes for different folks, huh?
I have spent my entire life on or near the Pacific Ocean. Raised in Lahaina I saw and watched in horror how fishermen came into Lahaina and destroyed all she had offered to ocean lovers there! But not just fisherman either. Tour operations related to the ocean destroyed this once peaceful, lazy town I grew up in. It became so bad I moved away!
Over the years working as a Waikiki Beachboy it aloud me to make a living doing what I love surfing. I'm sure your operation is somewhat out of love too for the ocean...but how much of it is greed? I bought a boat from Kauai some years back. A 20 ft Radon. It was great for fishing(trolling, coral diving) etc. I also knew it would come in handy here on the Big Island. But because of the local enviornment here in Puna I elected to sell my Radon Boat! With it I lost a valuable source of income....fishing! But I felt the local enviornment was more important than me launching my boat whenever to go fish, etc,etc,.
Like I said Shane different strokes for different folks! But don't piss on the back of the good folks of Puna and tell them it's a trade shower! It is what it is. A piece of beauty for some, and an eye sore for others!