Happiest of happy birthdays & hauʻoli lā hānau to our amazing James, who you may have met at our Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park visitor center park store on your Hawaiʻi Island travels.
James, we hope you are spending your birthday in some wonderful way! 🧡💙🩵

#TeamHPPA #MahaloJames ✨

Amanda at our Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park store likes to help all visitors, large or small or furry. This visitor entered without paying at the park gate & was briefly apprehended…before being snuggled.
Fear not, this bebe has a foster & will soon have a furever home. 🐱 #TeamHPPA

Happiest of happy anniversaries to our Akiko, who you may have been lucky enough to meet at our Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Welcome Center park store being the busiest & also kindest person ever! 🎉🌺 It's lucky #13!

#AmazingAkiko #TeamHPPA #HPPAOhana #HPPA #AkikoAnniversary #HPPAAnniversary

🎉 Happiest of HPPA birthdays and hauʻoli lā hānau to our awesome Valorey on Maui, who brings her patience and smarts to our Haleakalā NP visitor center park stores! 🌄
Valorey, we appreciate you & the aloha you bring every day.

#HappyBirthdayValorey 🎉 #HauOliLaHanau 🎂 #HPPABirthday 🥳 #TeamHPPA

🌺 Aloha ʻoe and happy next new wonderful thing to HPPA's Tina, who has moved on, so we must learn to do without her spotless efficiency and chill presence. 💼✨

Mahalo for all you have done for HPPA, Tina, and we wish you smooth sailing and calm seas ahead! 🌊⛵💖

#AlohaOe #MahaloTina #TeamHPPA

🎉 Happiest of HPPA birthdays and hauʻoli lā hānau to our amazing Christian, the HPPA Financial Operations Manager, who is perfectly at home with all those intimidating spreadsheets and numbers things! 📊🧮

#HappyBirthdayChristian 🎉 #HauOliLaHanau 🎂 #HPPABirthday 🥳 #TeamHPPA 🌈 #HPPA 🌺 #HappyBirthday 🎊

🎉 Happiest of HPPA birthdays and hauʻoli lā hānau to our amazing Carolynn "Pohaku", the rock who holds our admin office together, remembers everything, and wears 16 other hats (with style) besides!

Carolynn is essential to our operations (and sanity)!

🎂 #HPPABirthday 🥳 #TeamHPPA

🎉 Happy HPPA birthday & hauʻoli lā hānau to our superstar Elena 🌟—serving serious glam 💁‍♀️✨ along with all the other amazing things she excels at in our HVNP Welcome Center park store! 🛍️🌋

Elena, you set the bar for frontline excellence 💯 & we could not do what we do without you! 💪🌺

#TeamHPPA #Ohana

🎉 It was a whole big par-tay today over at Creative Services, where graphics whiz Dylan (in black) got his 3-year pin & custom project mngr Chuck 🪄 (blue shirt) was recognized for hitting his 6-month mark with HPPA.

We don’t plan to let either of them get away from us!

#TeamHPPA #HPPAAnniversary

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

🎉 Happy HPPA birthday and hauʻoli lā hānau to Tina (with hubs, holding her grandbebe) 👨‍👩‍👧💖, who helps keep our nonprofit park support bookkeeping precise and accurate 🧾📊—for which we are profoundly grateful because not all of us are good with numbers like that 🔢😅.

#TeamHPPA #HappyBirthday 🎁

Mary, frontline superstar at our Haleakalā National Park Summit District park stores, took a break and a walk to marvel at this newly blooming ‘āhinahina (Haleakalā silversword). 🌸🌺🌻🌼

#thisiswherewework #halekalanationalpark #hppa #teamhppa #haleakalāsilversword #āhinahina #inbloom #mahalomary🌺

🎉 Happy Haleakalā birthday & hauʻoli lā hānau to Shaylee, who works the frontline for us at our Haleakalā National Park visitor center park store & who goes hiking whenever she gets the chance—because honestly, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT THERE. 😍🏞️

#TeamHPPA #HPPABirthday #GoShayleeGo #TeamHaleakala #HPPA

Have you visited our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP and taken the coastal trail there? 🌴🌊
HPPA's Amanda shares this photo & says: What a view from this lovely perch on the 1871 Trail. A great place to take a rest after ascending the Alahaka ramp.

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #TeamHPPA #PUHO #MahaloAmanda

Have you been to the #Kahuku Unit 🌳 of our partner Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park?
HPPA's Pete likes to hike here on his days off & exercise his photography 📸 muscles.
He calls this image: The horizon path is clear.
🌋 Mahalo for the share, Pete!

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #TeamHPPA #HPPAOhana #KahukuUnit

Have any of you seen the other color varieties of our endemic ʻōhiʻa #lehua?
Yvonne Bauer, says:
Itʻs the ʻōhiʻa lehua bloom season!
I couldn't take my eyes off this beautiful deep orange ʻōhiʻa lehua tree on the rim of Kīlauea Caldera.
🧡
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HVNP #OhiaLehua #TeamHPPA #ThanksYvonne

Happiest of happy #birthdays 🎂🥳 and hauʻoli lā hānau 🧁🍬 to our #James, who makes our Hawaiʻi Island West Side national parks visitor center stores an extra-awesome place!
James is patient, thoughtful & kind & really good at his job!
Leave JAMES some birthday wishes in the comments! 🎉🎈 🎂🤙🎁
#TeamHPPA

If you stopped by our #kalokohonokohaunhp visitor center park store today, you might have met HPPA Executive Director Mel! She was graciously covering a shift so one of our frontline folks could attend a park gathering. We appreciate you, Mel! 👏🏼🌿

#MahaloMel #KAHO #shopyourparks #TeamHPPA

If you know HPPA’s Pete, you know that he’s passionate about the Kahuku Unit of our partner 🌋 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, where he takes long walks and lots of photos. 📸
Like this one, which he calls The Colours of Kahuku.

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #KahukuUnit #HPPA #HVNP #HUKU #TeamHPPA #ThanksPete

HPPA's Cheryl (lei) travelled to the Kīlauea summit to help with our KVC store move to KMC, and we took that opportunity to celebrate her 2-year work anniversary with us! Woohooo!!!! 😃🏆👏🏽🌋💚👑
Mahalo for all you do for us and for park visitors, Cheryl! We can’t do what we do without you!

#TeamHPPA

Shout out to our #hawaiivolcanoesnps park store frontline folks (Kimberly, Akiko, & SM mngr Judy) who handle the crowds of bedazzled parks visitors in the store with grace, smarts, & Hawai’i Island hospitality! Kīlauea's 🌋 been buuuussssyyyy, & so have we!
#TeamHPPA #FrontlineQueens 👑👑 #HPPA #HVNP

✨ Meet Tina! ✨
Everyone, say hello to Tina, the newest addition to our HPPA admin team! Tina's helping our numbers people sail this big, beautiful park support ship—and she does it with incredible grace. 🌊
YOU ARE VALUED.
Never leave us. We'll keep your chocolate bowl full. 🍫💕

#TeamHPPA #AlohaTina

You might remember that HPPAer Pete loves to hike in the Kahuku District of our partner @hawaiivolcanoesnps on his time off.
He calls this photo: When daylight turns the trees to silver.

🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌞🌞🌿🌿🌿🌿🌞🌿🌞

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HawaiiVolcanoesNationalPark #Kahuku #HPPA #HUKU #HVNP #TeamHPPA #MahaloPete

You may have heard about a little eruption happening at Kīlauea Volcano. 🌋 HPPAer and volcano fan @yvonnebaurphoto caught this mesmerizing footage taken the evening of December 24. Episode 2

#kilaueavolcano #TeamHPPA #kilaueavideo #HVNP

OK, Round 2 of the photos celebrating our Michelle's 15 year HPPA anniversary are too danged awesome not to share! Also? Michelle is a goofball! 😄
Pictured from L to R: Our ED Mel, (Michelle), our buyer Kalikoweo, and Carolynn Pohaku!
#MahaloMichelle #HPPAanniversary #15YearPin #YasssQueen #TeamHPPA

HPPAer Ed sent in this incredible pic 📸✨ of the cannon Lopaka, used by Kamehameha I during his wars to unify the Hawaiian Islands. The park visitor center window perfectly reflects majestic Puʻukoholā Heiau on the hill above.
Ed calls this: Reflections.

#ThisIsWhereWeWork #TeamHPPA #Lopaka #PUHE

Happy one year anniversary ✨👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 to our Christian, who deals with those scary spreadsheets and financial reports and all such things to keep HPPA doing that park support thing we do. Here he is, getting his first pin from our executive director, Mel. It’s been a fast year! #teamhppa

Keith, who helps hold down the HPPA operation at our #haleakalanps park stores on Maui, sent over this raindrop-bedazzled 🌧️ silversword 🌿 for you to admire. The plant is furry to snag every passing possible droplet. Rain makes that a bit easier today.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork 🌋 #TeamHPPA 🌱 #Silversword 💚

🌧️🌫️ It is a rainy afternoon at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano today, at partner HVNP. HPPA's Kiry still took her walk because sheʻs weatherproof like that. Of this photo of naupaka kuahiwi with its distinctive "half" flower, she says simply:
🌸 Keep blooming.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #TeamHPPA #KeepBlooming

🌺 HPPA's Pete likes to hike in HVNP and indulge his photography side when he's not holding our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park visitor center park store together. He calls this simply: ʻŌhiʻa blooms in the rain 🌧️.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork 🏞️ #TeamHPPA #HawaiiParks #OhiaLehua 🌺