HPPA’s Haleakalā (NP stores) Area Manager Mary has 2 VERY different visitor center store areas to manage: the Summit District 🌄 & the Kīpahulu District 🌿—10 miles past the town of Hana 🚗
Mary says: When I’m heading this way, I’m having the best workday ever! 😍💚🩵
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HALE #KIPA
Where do you take your breaks at work? ☕🌿
Belinda is on our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store team so she takes her breaks in what she calls: "the best break room ever!" If you have visited this gorgeous, serene, incredibly important Hawaiian site, you know.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ADayInMyJob #HPPA #PUHO
Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP visitor center store says she is always ready to SELL THE SHELL! 🐚
Our cute little pū (sea shell trumpet) plushies 🥰 were created to help tell the story of how important events were announced at this amazing place, & kids love them.
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🌊..."and the benefits of membership are"...🌊
🤳When you visit Hawaiʻi national parks VC stores, you might hear about HPPA membership & the pluses for you & the parks. Pete, at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store, knows these benefits inside AND out! 💪
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ADayInMyJob #HPPA #Pete
The HQ Visitor Center & park store at Haleakalā NP may still be closed for reno, but for Team HPPA the pricing 💲, receiving 📦, & sorting 🗂️ go on! Shaylee & Mary (& Wendy🤳) are out here (literally) making sure your park store visit is epic when the doors open.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ADayInMyJob #HPPA
HPPA's Belinda says good morning to you with this crimson ʻōhiʻa lehua blossom (& buds) she photographed at the beautiful Kahuku Unit of our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes NP, known for its abundant #ōhialehua blooms.
Find us in the visitor center park store!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP #HUKU
HPPAʻs Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store likes to take walks before work & document the park.
A morning glory🌸, pohuehue is an indigenous coastal plant. It forms a dense groundcover important for erosion control 🌊🏝️.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO #Pohuehue #WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory
Do you know your Hawai’i birds?
HPPA’s Wendy says she photographed this Maui ‘alauahio in #haleakalanps in October 2024 on a free afternoon, after firefighters contained a wildfire 🔥 that threatened to cross the boundary into the park.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HALE #Alauahio #NativeWildlife🐦⬛
Have you seen one of these?
This is the flower from the hala tree found in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā NP.
HPPA's Lynn says: The hala blooms in spring/early summer.The fruit resembles a pineapple, so it has tricked many visitors into thinking it is a pineapple tree!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #Hala
Every month we have a little photo contest inside #HPPA 📸 because we love the parks in which we work 🌿🏞️. You can find them by #ThisIsWhereWeWork ✨
This month we focussed (ha ha) on the theme "Small wonders".
Starting in 2026 🗓️, we will also post the group of submissions for the month.
#nationalparks
Did you catch this mackerel sky in Hawaiʻi before that last big storm? A mackerel sky is rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds similar to fish scales. ~Wikipedia
Christine at our #HVNP Kahuku Unit VC store caught this view. A lot of us were skywatching that day!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HUKU
Love big national park landscapes? Pull your focus down to the details & you can be rewarded with some unexpected beauty. 💚 HPPA's Amanda wandered thru Kaloko-Honokōhau NHP: Details of a frond of the endangered native loulu palm at Kaloko-Honokohau NHP. 💧
#SmallWonders #LouluPalm #ThisIsWhereWeWork
HPPA's Pete works at our Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store, but loves to go hike in the cool, misty forests of the Kahuku Unit at HVNP.
Pete's an artist, always looking really closely at beautiful things 🎨🌿
He calls this closeup:
Softness of nature in the tranquility of Kahuku. ✨🌱
#ThisIsWhereWeWork
Lynn over at our #HaleakalāNP HPPA park stores has an 👁️ for sweet little details 🐝🌼
“The non-native insects like this European honeybee enjoy the blossom nectar from the endemic māmane plant, also a favorite with the endemic honeycreeper birds!” 🐦🌺
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #SmallWonders #CuteButt
HPPA's Pete & his fur buddy Petey love to leash up & hit the cool, grassy trails of the Kahuku Unit of our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes Nat. Park. Petey is clearly always alert for whatever lays ahead on their adventures! 🐾
The Kahuku Unit is near Ocean View. 🦮
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HUKU #HVNP #HPPA
Somewhere over the rainbow at Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park... 🌈
Mahalo to our Amanda at the VC park store who is always on the lookout for the beauty inherent to that amazing Hawaiʻi national historical park.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO #weworkhere #HawaiiParks #MahaloAmanda
HPPA’s team members get to work not only on behalf of our national park partners, but also often inside the parks we love. 🌿✨
Each month we share some of our favorite photos with each other & this month we thought you might enjoy them, too! Use them for some holiday calm.🪷
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA
HPPA’s team members get to work not only on behalf of our national park partners, but also often inside the parks we love. 🌿✨
Each month we share some of our favorite photos with each other & this month we thought you might enjoy them, too! Use them for some holiday calm.🪷
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA
Have you ever seen a sunrise rainbow?
😲
Shaylee at our @haleakalanps park stores was up early with the rest of the morning people and caught this from the summit of Haleakalā Volcano. 🌄🌈
Thanks, Shaylee! Your office views are inspiring!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HALE #HPPA #ThanksShaylee
HPPA's Harry made the most of the last eruption of #Kīlauea at our partner Hawai'i Volcanoes NP by getting out to the crater rim in time to catch the #lava fountains during their short few-hour window. 🌋🔥
Harry calls this photo: Enjoying Pele's show at our park. ✨
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP
HPPA's Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP park store is generous with her art. This photo of a black-crowned night heron on park grounds is called:
“ʻAukuʻu reflecting at the fishponds in the Royal Grounds at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park.” 🐦🌴💧
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO
HPPA's Pete, on our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park store staff, loves a good before/after/lunch walk 🚶♂️🌞. The benefit of working in such a magnificent national park site is that his walks can look like this. 🌊😍
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ThanksPete #1871Trail #PuuhonuaOHonaunau #HPPA #PUHO
HPPA's Lynn over at our Haleakalā National Park Summit District park stores gets to have views like THIS 🌄🌈 while, you know, just sort of going through her work day.
Haleakalā Volcano — like the planet's biggest lava lamp but with light and mist and magic. ☁️✨🌋
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HALE #HPPA
Does this remind anyone else of a Hawaiian quilt pattern?
HPPA's Emma was exploring our partner HVNP when she looked down & saw this little ʻōhiʻa lehua plant & was instantly reminded of one of those cool, retro, Hawaiian quilt pattern designs. We can totes see it!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP
HPPA's Dylan was walking in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park after work when this bright crimson ʻōhiʻa lehua stopped him in his tracks. Fortunately he's a pretty good photographer, too. That moss! So windswept!
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP #OhiaLehua #ThanksDylan
📸 Our Amanda, from the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP #HPPA store team, caught this sublime moment. She says:
🚣♂️🌊 “A scene repeated for hundreds of years — an outrigger canoe maneuvering just outside Keoneʻele Cove in Hōnaunau Bay, as part of the Queen Liliʻuokalani Canoe Race.”
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #PUHO
🌄 Most folks hurrying to the summit of Haleakalā Volcano at our partner Haleakalā NP don’tnotice the Leleiwi or Kalahaku overlooks along the way 🚗💨 — 👀✨
Both offer sublime views & HPPA’s Mary knows that & paused btwn our 2 VC park stores to catch this molten sunset afterglow 🌅.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork
Dobby, did we wake ya up?
Behold sleepy Dobby, whose nēnē gosling plush ensures he'll fly into good dreams. HPPA park stores manager Wendy snapped this pic of these two, peacefully dreaming. (Maybe our big plush Hawaiian owl would be too scary?)
#HPPAOhana #DobbyDreams #TeamHPPA #ThisIsWhereWeWork
HPPA's Dylan from CS was at #Haleakalā Nat. Park in July with incredible weather for shots like this. ☀
He says: I had to stop in awe at the sheer size of the Haleakalā Volcano summit landscape. When I think of all the unique phases it's had, nothing is permanent! ⌛
#HALE #HPPA #ThisIsWhereWeWork
#HPPA's Amanda, on our park store frontline at partner Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP, has a really sweet photo to share w/ you: "A baby coconut palm unfurls in the sunlight at #PUHO. The next generation is being born using the stump of the last generation for nourishment."
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #bebe #niu
