Misha was born in Wyoming and grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin. He went to school at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. Served in the US Navy from 1966-1969 as a Deep Sea Salvage Officer aboard the USS Ute ATF-76 serving a year in Vietnam. Following his Navy service Misha joined Makai Range based out of Waimanalo, Hawaii and conducted experimental research diving with full saturation habitat dives to 520 feet depth
From 1972 Misha traveled the world aboard his yawl the Hikaroa. Sailing on his 49 foot wooden yawl he has seen much of Africa, Southeast Asia, and of course the South Pacific. Married in Tahiti and his first child and only daughter Marlene born in Cairns, Australia and spending the first three years of her life at sea.
Misha lived in Austria throughout the 1980s while collecting antique Charts and Prints from galleries and collections throughout Europe and the United States. In 1990 Misha moved back to the US and in 1992 started up Old Hawaiian Coffee.
Misha Sperka was an aquanaut working for Makai Range between 1968-1972. He was doing saturation diving down to 520 feet. He has traveled the world and dove the world over. From 1991-2015 he was a Scuba Diving instructor in the Kona area.
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Unfortunately our 2022 coffee harvest has been the worst we've ever had. As of the start of January 2023 we are not taking new coffee orders and just sending what little off-season coffee is coming in to our coffee club members on backorder. Our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience, please contact us if you want to be notified when coffee is available again for ordering.
The coffee season over the last few years has been unpredictable but we hope that in August 2023 to be back on our normal harvest cycle with hopefully a bumper crop to make up for the poor harvest
Mahalo for your support!