Tag along with our tour guides to learn about the tropical fish export business and what companies do to protect the coral reef. This unique behind-the-scenes salt-water tropical fish warehouse experience shows you how a colorful fish and invertebrates travels across the world to an aquarium, pet store, or research facility perhaps in your town.
Did you know that our fish travel in triple layer plastic bags with ocean water and pure oxygen?

Aloha Fish Tours is a unique tropical fish factory tour. You'll be able to see hundreds of colorful animals in factory warehouse and learn about their journey to a public aquarium or pet store.
There is also a chance to touch live tide pool animals like hermit crabs and sea stars.

Thinking about going snorkeling on O'ahu? This amazing fish tour will teach you some of the common Hawaiian fish names you may see on the shallow reefs.

Big Island Candies was established in 1977 with one sole purpose - to create the finest macadamia nut chocolates and cookies found anywhere in the world today. All of our chocolates and cookies are handmade starting with the finest ingredients, such as high-grade chocolate, island eggs, and premium 100% Hawaii-grown macadamia nuts. All the attention we give to each piece of our handmade chocolates and cookies is what makes Big Island Candies? A True Hawaiian Classic!
Big Island Candies is a special company. It is a company whose facilities, methods of operation, and employees define the meaning of the spirit of Aloha, thus making our company one of the best in the industry. We produce one-of-a-kind chocolates, cookies, and unique delicacies of unsurpassed taste and quality. We are constantly creating new products to provide our customers with a continuously improving selection of merchandise using packaging that highlights the excellent quality of our products.

Big Island Candies treats every customer as a special guest by providing prompt, helpful, and friendly service. Everything humanly possible is done to ensure that our customers enjoy their shopping experience with us. We are confident that you will leave the store knowing that your purchases will be thoroughly enjoyed by your friends, loved ones, or yourself.

Big Island Candies takes every precaution to ensure that all of our handmade chocolates and cookies are of the highest quality and freshness. If at any time you find that our products do not meet these standards, just return the unused portion to us and we will gladly replace it.

Aloha and Welcome to the BIG WIND KITE FACTORY Handmade Kites and Windsocks from Hawaii.

All of our kites and windsocks are made here on molokai from nylon. We use fiberglass spars for the kites and the hoops of the windsocks are made with poly tubing. All edges not fully hemmed are cut with a hot knife to seal the edges.

While you are on Molokai please be sure to drop by for our free factory tours. We will give away all of our secrets, tell a few corny jokes and direct you to the best kite flying places on the island. We give free kite flying lessons at our Aeronaughtical Testing Facility, the park next door.

Originally opened as a fruit stand in 1950, it reopened to the public as Hawaii?s "Pineapple Experience" in 1989 after an extensive remodeling of its previous facilities. In May of 1997, Dole Plantation completed a $125,000 interior renovation that simulates building facades patterned after old Haleiwa Town.

Dole Plantation welcomes nearly one million visitors a year. Guests of Dole Plantation enjoy a variety of attractions and activities including the Pineapple Express, the Pineapple Garden Maze, the Guinness Book of World Records 2001 World's Largest Maze, informational displays and presentations about pineapple and the history of Dole, and the plantation center, offering hundreds of unique pineapple-related and Dole brand items, including the world famous DoleWhip®. Every week, Dole Plantation sells more than 3,500 fresh Hawaii-grown pineapple for consumption at the store or packaged for customers to take home.

The Visitor Center is the Field Office of the operating sugar plantation located on the west side of Kaua?i. Displays show the history of Gay & Robinson Inc., Olokele Sugar Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co. (a k a Makaweli Plantation) and Makaweli Ranch. Both historical and modern field and factory operations as followed in Hawai?i, and various artifacts are also exhibited. A world sugar map showcases sugar politics and current events.

We welcome you to visit us in historic Holualoa
for free coffee plantation tours and coffee tastings.

On the gentle upland slopes overlooking the Kona coast, just 10 minutes from Kailua-Kona on historic Mamalahoa Highway. You'll enjoy the scenic drive through the prized Kona coffee belt.

Owners Desmond and Lisen Twigg-Smith invite you to experience Kona's bountiful Kona coffee harvest on their family farm.

Learn what makes one of the world's finest coffees from the tree to the cup.

In addition to roasting their own estate coffee, this thriving mill and roasting operation handles coffee for more than 100 nearby Kona farms. Tour the farm's orchards and mill in a small, personalized setting. Finish up in the roasting room and enjoy a complimentary cup of fresh roasted Kona coffee.

Kauai Coffee got its start in the early 1800s as McBryde Sugar Company, one of the first sugar growers in Hawaii. The transformation from McBryde Sugar Company to Kauai Coffee in 1987 represents Hawaii's largest diversified agricultural project in the past 50 years.

The Kauai Coffee venture experienced a severe setback in 1992, when Hurricane Iniki inflicted $8.5 million in damages to the coffee crop. The future of Kauai Coffee, and all of Kauai, looked bleak. Fortunately, both made a comeback, and in 1996, Kauai Coffee's harvest exceeded the volume of coffee produced by the entire Kona region.

Kona Brewing Company was started by father and son team Cameron Healy and Spoon Khalsa. The pair had a dream to create fresh, local island brews made with spirit, passion and quality. Their love of Hawaii, and a desire to protect the pristine environment here, brought them to the Big Island to fulfill their vision. Kona Brewing continues to be headquartered right where it began, in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island.

The brewery began brewing and packaging beer in February 1995. Since that first year, beer production at the Kona facility has increased every year by a total of 585 percent. Several tanks and other brewing equipment have been added through the years to enable increased production. Today, the brewery consists of a mash tun, brew kettle, whirlpool, 10 fermenters, five conditioning tanks and two grain silos. A staff of six pumps 310,000 gallons of beer each year, filling the 4,000 kegs kept in circulation throughout Hawaii.

Aloha from Kona Joe, where we grow our 100% pure Kona Coffee on a trellis using the same techniques as the world's finest vineyards!

Kona Joe is the world's first trellised coffee plantation, and Kona Joe has the patent to prove it!

Our Kona Coffee products include; Estate Trellised Kona, Kainaliu Kona Joe Coffee, Peaberry Kona Coffee, Espresso, Decaf Kona Coffee, our world famous JammerS - as well as Kona Coffee Gifts and our own line of Kona Joe Mugs and Signature clothing.

Kona Joe puts his name (and reputation) on everything he sells. He wants you to be happy!

Our goal is to farm, process, and roast the world's finest Kona Coffee. Our award winning coffee is grown, processed, and roasted in the USA. All internet orders are shipped direct from our farm for maximum freshness and flavor.

MAUI DIVERS STARTED IN 1958 AS A DIVE SHOP GIVING SCUBA TOURS ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI.

Your 20 minute guided tour begins with a brief stop at the exhibit area. There you will see the unique CORAL TREES in their natural state, and hear the tail of the YACHT bound for TAHITI, and how it's fateful voyage played a special part in Maui Divers' history. You will also see how our unique Jewelry Designs have evolved since 1958.

Comfortably seated in one of our many plush air-conditioned theaters you will view a short film which highlights the HARVESTING OF CORAL from the sea and the various phases of exquisite craftsmanship involved in the creation of Maui Divers' world famous jewelry. To ensure the enjoyment of your tour, our film is offered in several languages.

After the film, you'll view Maui Divers' skilled artisans and designers as they create unique pieces behind glass security panels.

Hilo isn't on the main tourist trail in Hawaii -- but it's well worth a trip, especially so you can visit us! Our plantations, headquarters, factory and factory store are all less than 10 minutes from the Hilo airport (drive south on Highway 11, then left on Macadamia Road at our sign.)

Mauna Loa's primary business is producing whole, roasted, lightly salted macadamia nuts, vacuum packed in jars, cans and foil packets. Among the additional macadamia nut products are Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nuts, Glazed Macadamia Nuts, Savory Macadamia Nuts, Macadamia Cookies, and Honey Roasted Macadamia Nuts. Plus, Mauna Loa now packages a wide variety of gift items, and has extended its product line to include a virtual feast of Tropical Treats.

Take a tour through the factory of the world's largest macadamia nut company. Watch how the nuts are processed, roasted, and packaged, or made into chocolate and candied confections.

After driving through our plantation, you'll tour our factory, shop in our factory store, sample our delicious products, and maybe best of all, stroll our comfortable nature walk, where more than 30 stunning tropical plants are in constant bloom (bring a camera!). The welcome mat is always out.

Mountain Thunder has been in business for over ten years, so relatively speaking we are new, but we have grown over the years to become one of the major players in the world of Kona Coffee. And yes, Mountain Thunder is one of the most prestigious Kona Coffee companies around. We opt to be certified by several different entities looking at the way we process our coffee organically, where and who we buy our coffee from--is it really Kona Coffee? The agencies that are continuously looking at us are the State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture for Kona Coffee authenticity and quality, GOCA an accredited certifier by the United States Department of Agriculture for compliance with organic growing and processing standards, KOFK Kosher Certification and Visa PCI compliance certification company Control Scan who looks at the security of our online transactions.

Mountain Thunder has watched companies come and go over the past ten years. We have developed a sort of originality in the Kona Coffee business, taking the high road. And you will see for yourself that we do things a little different--for the better of you, our customer.

All we do is sell 100% Pure Kona Coffee. And we are a family owned and operated business, which throughout history continues to be the organizational unit that consistently produces only the best quality. All the major coffee companies were originally family owned businesses, and they produced some pretty good coffee in their time--before the accountants got involved, and the shareholders demanded increases in profit, one after another. Of course, we only go in the direction of premium Kona Coffee, not in the direction of corporate politics. We're different, and you can taste the difference.

Mountain Thunder has been in business for over ten years, so relatively speaking we are new, but we have grown over the years to become one of the major players in the world of Kona Coffee. And yes, Mountain Thunder is one of the most prestigious Kona Coffee companies around. We opt to be certified by several different entities looking at the way we process our coffee organically, where and who we buy our coffee from--is it really Kona Coffee? The agencies that are continuously looking at us are the State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture for Kona Coffee authenticity and quality, GOCA an accredited certifier by the United States Department of Agriculture for compliance with organic growing and processing standards, KOFK Kosher Certification and Visa PCI compliance certification company Control Scan who looks at the security of our online transactions.

Mountain Thunder has watched companies come and go over the past ten years. We have developed a sort of originality in the Kona Coffee business, taking the high road. And you will see for yourself that we do things a little different--for the better of you, our customer.

All we do is sell 100% Pure Kona Coffee. And we are a family owned and operated business, which throughout history continues to be the organizational unit that consistently produces only the best quality. All the major coffee companies were originally family owned businesses, and they produced some pretty good coffee in their time--before the accountants got involved, and the shareholders demanded increases in profit, one after another. Of course, we only go in the direction of premium Kona Coffee, not in the direction of corporate politics. We're different, and you can taste the difference.

Welcome to Kona, and the most exotic chocolate on earth ~ exclusively from Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory.

When we moved to our 6-acre orchards and home overlooking the Kona coastline in 1997 from North Carolina, fulfilling our dream to live where the mountains meet the sea, we dedicated ourselves to creating the finest products ~ Kona Coffee, and now 100% Hawaiian Chocolate. There is something about our volcanic soil, Island showers and tropical Hawaiian sun that blesses our crops with unique flavor that is world renowned.
This is especially true with our totally unique chocolate. We are ONLY the first producers to grow and process all-Hawaiian chocolate anywhere on earth. From the 1,600 cacao trees that surround our Keauhou home we process only Big Island grown cocoa beans. Our micro processing factory was the first one in Hawai'i ~ assuring total quality control from the fields to the final chocolate bars.

Original Hawaiian Chocolate is made with 100% Hawaiian cocoa beans which are grown, hand-picked, sun-dried on Hawaii Island in Kona and non-blended to assure purity and quality. Enjoy the distinctive texture and taste of single-origin Original Hawaiian Chocolate. Tours available by reservation. Chocolate is Aloha!

HOMEGROWN, HANDMADE, HAWAIIAN
How Our Cocoa Beans Become Chocolate Bars

It all starts with tiny cacao blossoms. Pollinated flowers develop small pods, which can take 5 months to mature. Ripe cacao pods are brightly-colored and ready for harvest, using hand pruners and extendable sickles. Harvested pods are cut open to extract the raw cocoa beans, which are collected in buckets and weighed. Raw cocoa beans are fermented for 6-8 days in special “sweat boxes”, where they naturally heat up to 122º and “sweat” off their coatings. The beans are then placed on drying racks in the sun for 22-28 days, until their moisture content reaches 7%.

Sun-dried beans are then roasted to lock in their flavor and sent to the winnower, which removes the shell and breaks the beans into bits called nibs. The nibs are ground in the conch for 2 hours, creating a concentrated liquid called cocoa mass. Vanilla and lecithin (an emulsifier) are added, along with other ingredients for dark or milk chocolate. Conching continues for 18 more hours producing a velvety smooth texture. Traveling from the conch through the holding tank, the chocolate arrives at the temperer, where it cools 2-1?2 hours from 120º to 86º. In the temperer, the cocoa butter crystals stabilize, giving the finished chocolate a brisk snap and satin sheen.

Each piece of chocolate is hand-poured, then cooled for de-molding and packing. Our unique packaging is perfect for gifts and sharing sweet memories of Hawaii! The hands that pick, process and create our chocolate are often the same ones that carefully pack and ship it to you. Pure Hawaiian goodness - from seedlings to bars of melt-in-your-mouth delight. Since we only produce a limited amount we treat each bar with tender loving care. We're very proud to offer our Original Hawaiian Chocolate for everyone to appreciate this rarest of life's pleasures.

Located in one of the most historic buildings on the island of Maui. The King's Cottage dates to 1874, when it was built specifically for the visit of Hawaii's monarch David Kalakaua and queen Kapi'olani. During his turbulent reign, which began that year and lasted until his death 1891, Hawai'i's last king often came to Ulupalakua find peace of mind.
The centerpiece of the Tasting Room is an eighteen-foot-long bar cut from the trunk of a single mango tree. Shelves are stocked with Hawaiian-made products and specialty foods and gifts.

The Tasting Room provides packaging to make it easy to carry our wines back home, either carried on or checked as luggage. The outlying grounds, shaded by trees more than a hundred years old, retain the buildings and landmarks of a fascinating bygone era. This is the landscape of old Rose Ranch, one of Hawai'i's most prosperous and admired nineteenth-century sugar plantations as well as the headquarters of present-day 'Ulupalakua Ranch, home of the Paniolo or Hawaiian cowboy.

Today the ranch is a destination for visitors exploring rural Upcountry Maui. They picnic here and learn island history by touring the grounds.
The Kalakaua Cottage Tasting Room is open nine to five daily (except for major holidays).

Tadao Ueshima started Ueshima Coffee Company in Japan in 1933 in order to revolutionize a new coffee trend in a country of tea drinkers. He sought to bring the taste of great coffees to Japan and helped spur Japan to be the third largest consuming nation of coffee in the world. Ueshima Coffee Company is now the largest provider of coffee products in Japan and with this growth is in a position to provide the high quality, great coffee taste that brings a "Good Coffee Smile" to the faces of coffee lovers the world over. As a part of bringing about this "Good Coffee Smile", UCC established Ueshima Coffee (UCC Hawaii) Corp. in Kona in 1989. Providing a physical presence in one of the premiere coffee growing areas in the world has enabled UCC to carefully monitor and control every aspect of Kona coffee processing from "seed to cup".