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Day 112: Back to the Tracks!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Once again, we depart from our lovely, if very oversized, rowboat, to see the sites. The first thing we see is one of the few, if not only, bits of four lane highway on Kauai!  A Kakui nut lei. We have come to the Kauai Plantation to ride the train.  Afterwards there was also a […]

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What I missed on Maui…

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Turns out that one of the three running railroads in Hawai’i is in Lahaina.  I think I hit the other two!   Okay, I saw another one (the Hawaiian Railroad Society on Oahu) and rode two others; I don’t know if the Dole Plantation Pineapple Express counts for one, and there is one at the […]

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Day 86: Around Honolulu…

Friday, March 30, 2012

The day started with another nice buffet at the longboard, with the birds… Spotted dove. They don’t hold still much, but I got one a little more in focus! “What?  I don’t remember posing for this stupid sign!” We actually got stopped by a train!  It was a school excursion at the Hawaiian Railway Society! […]

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Day 81: The Plantation Garden Tour!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Presented (mostly) without comment. Sago Palm! (Click on these to enlarge; BACK to return!) Unknown! Hey, what’s that through those trees…? … ……  … Ginger. Curtain Palm??? Bananas. Unknown. A complete mystery. Bird of Paradise. Unknown. Still unknown, only taller.   The one on the left. A red unknown. Yup  Still. Ti.  Not tea, Ti. […]

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Day 80: The Pineapple Express, part 2!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Dole Plantation is mainly a demonstration of what they do and did now.  The crops are exhibits.  Pineapple and sugar cane have pretty much moved away from the Islands.  Here is sugar cane and bananas (the short plants…) More of the same. Cheap farm labor. A nice green hedge as we roll along. They […]

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Day 79: The Pineapple Express, part 1!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

At the Dole Plantation: Pineapples! Young, immature, 800 gallons of water per plant pineapples. Another, more mature pineapple… Koi!   A few more Koi! LOTS of Koi! ‘Told ya! Watering the crops at the Dole Pineapple Plantation! Hey, what’s that over there? It is yellow and it toots… YES!  It tis the Pineapple Express, a […]

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Day 78: The first morning in Hawai’i!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

A little sun with the clouds… Lots of flowers around the Ko Olina Beach Club Resort! The breakfast buffet at the Longboard Bar and Grill. Melissa, our oh so good and can’t stop but I-want-to-go-to-Montana hostess! Dailylife at the Longboard! Another flower… So what comes after flowers and a breakfast buffet?  A trip to the North […]

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Day 70

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Fife in the morning… (1/350, f5.6, 00mm, ISO 640, -1 to 2 stops) (1/500, f8, 400mm, ISO 640, -1 or 2 stops) ~Curtis in Fife, /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 6

Thursday, January 5, 2012

A nice sunrise from the 26th of December, 2011.  In Fife, of course! (1/90, f8, 19mm, ISO 125, -1 stop) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Day 1 (1096), 2012: Happy New Year!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

A new Sunrise near Fife to start the new year!  I hope it isn’t prophetic: it started really good and dulled down to not much before it was done. Click to enlarge; BACK to return! (Four photos stitched together in MS ICE and shrunk a lot!) The obligatory Fife photo! (1/30, f4, 40mm, ISO 500, […]

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