About Lobo Del Mar

“Lobo Del Mar” is Spanish for “Sea Wolf”, and is the name of our family owned and operated activity & entertainment company here on the Big Island of Hawaii. The “Sea Wolf” was one of our first live-aboard boats, taking us from the west coast of the United States up north to Alaska, where we lived and worked on the water. After many years of adventure in the last frontier, we left the boat behind - taking with us its’ name, and uncountable memories. Eventually, we made our way down to Old Mexico, and then on to the beautiful Big Island of Hawaii - which for the moment, we all call “home”. Beginning with a jack-of-all-trades Texan and his Georgian wife, their eleven children formed the foundation of what has today grown into a family consisting of over 50 members – four generations of family that all work (and play) in some aspect of the family business.

Besides operating and booking for a wide variety of land and ocean tours listed on this website, Lobo Del Mar also runs a family restaurant, handcrafts old world musical instruments and original hand-wrought jewelry, as well as entertaining many venues with our large music and dance troupe that performs island wide.

You can read more about Lobo Del Mar in “The Family That Went Down to The Sea” - a collection of prose and poetry written by Carrol Buntin (known affectionately by her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren as “Big Mom”). This book, littered with pictures from many memorable moments over the years, tells wonderful stories about raising eleven children on a boat, and their travels from Alaska to Mexico, Hawaii and beyond!