‘Moana’ first Disney movie in Hawaiian

The Hawaiian version of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Moana” had its premiere screening over the weekend at a World Oceans Day event at Ko Olina Resort. It features an all-Hawaii cast, including Auli‘i Cravalho in a reprisal of her lead role. The University of Hawaii’s Academy for Creative Media System, which provided funding and coordination for project’s production at UH campuses, intends to see the film shared for educational purposes in the islands and elsewhere.

Most Disney productions are dubbed in dozens of languages after appearing in English. This effort marks an overdue first time for Disney to include Hawaiian in that lineup.

Keep those snakes out of our islands

It’s a good thing that a western terrestrial garter snake was snared aboard ship on Monday in Honolulu Harbor — wherever or however it stowed away. That is a fairly adaptable species, a snake that likes temperate zones but can do OK in desert, savanna, forest or mountains as well. In the U.S. they like everywhere from New Mexico to Oklahoma and Nebraska up to the Canadian border, as well as Baja California.

Let’s hope this one was traveling solo. A female can give birth to eight to 12 little squigglers at a time — and in a place with no natural predators. It makes one shudder.