01.08.12.01 - Hawaii

All images captured by "the dragon" - an eyemodule on a Handspring Visor PDA.

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Anthereums in the Farmer's Market in Hilo town (22564 bytes)

Sewing room in a restored Japanese immigrant home from the early 1900's, on the Greenfield Living History Farm. Nice view! (21759 bytes)

Palm trees at Puuhonua o Honaunau, the Place of Refuge and Kamehameha's royal grounds (21761 bytes)

Akaka Falls, a 420' drop (15093 bytes)

The sculpture that greets visitors at the Kailua-Kona airport. The whole airport is open to the outside, because the weather is always perfect! (That's one of the gates in the background)(19726 bytes)

An old manual coffee bean pulper, used to remove the outer flesh from the inner bean, on the Greenfield Living History Farm (16051 bytes)

Pineapple plant on the Muana Loa macadamia nut plantation (14742 bytes)

Akaka Falls, on the way to Hilo (15910 bytes)

A contact-era (late 1700's) petroglyph we found at Kaloko-Honokohau historic site, which is still being developed. It appears to be a side view of a tall ship (21789 bytes)

An exotic flower arrangement in the Hilo Farmer's Market. Can you see the price tag--$5! (21905 bytes)

Leaf along the trail to Akaka Falls--this is a very happy philodendron! (22845 bytes)

One of our second or third generation Japanese coffee farmer guides at the Greenfield Living History Farm. Hanging on the door is the "Uchida" stencil used to label the bags of beans (17668 bytes)

Drying the beans in the sun at the coffee mill, on the Greenfield Living History Farm (18040 bytes)

An old John Deere 3 horse engine used to run the motorized pulper and shaker to process the coffee beans, on the Greenfield Living History Farm (19137 bytes)

Yoga lesson on the lanai (21210 bytes)

Kona coffee still on the plant! The beans are removed when they turn red. At the Greenfield Living History Farm (25773 bytes)

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