Who discovered Hawaii?
Kauai is my topic of thought for the day, but I’ll yield in favor of the thoughts of Spanish galleons sailing into Honolulu Harbor a century or two before Captain Cook managed to sail into Hawaiian waters. Captain Cook is widely credited with “discovering” Hawaii for Western civilization. What the locals in Hawaii discovered was disease and new ways to inflict pain and harm on each other. Regardless, Cook got all the credit and the monuments, despite the mounting evidence that says the Spanish landed in Hawaii long before. Kauai seems to be the first place the Spanish galleons charted. Those charts eventually became the property of the English. And you know where Captain Cook is from. What were the Spanish doing way out in the ocean, thousands of miles from nowhere? Remember, those folks built ships that went everywhere. America would still be lost if it weren’t for the Spanish, right? Mexico and the Philippines are connected by 8,000 miles of Pacific ocean. Hawaii lies pretty much sma
