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Day 82: Along the North Shore!

Monday, March 26, 2012

After the Dole Plantation we headed up to the North Shore.  It is not to long of a drive. (Many of these photos are the Dailylife Wife’s: it is apparently now a capital offense to remove your hands from the steering wheel for >>any<< reason on this Island!) As we dropped down out of the […]

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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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Admin note: Uh Oh!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

If the next week’s worth of posts are sparse, it is because we are taking a cruise around the islands, and if nothing has changed they seem to charge about $1 per bit for the Internet onboard the ship…We will catch up as soon as we can! {!-{> Our first morning! (1/1500, f8, 40mm, ISO […]

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Day 77: The first afternoon and evening!

Friday, March 16, 2012

At the Ko Olina Beach Club Resort the Common Myna abounds! (All photos taken on the Canon Powershot SX100IS unless otherwise noted!) The lovely (manmade?) cove and beach at the Ko Olina. A Nutmeg Mannikin watches over our lunch! One of the many funny red plants that thrive in Hawaii. Salsa, chips and a Longboard […]

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Day 76: In the air to Hawaii!

Friday, March 16, 2012

The next morning it was cold and rainy at the SEATAC terminal…Seattle in March.  YUCK! (Click to enlarge; BACK to return!) (Four photos stitched together in PS Elements 9) There was substantial de-icing going on. (All photos taken on an Apple iPod or a Canon Powershot SX100S) But soon it was up into the clouds! […]

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Day 75

Friday, March 16, 2012

Traveling on to Seattle and Tacoma the weather was a lot more like winter than we saw in Montana this year (so far!): (Canon Powershot SX100IS on Auto) In spite of all of the weather, snow and slush, we made it over okay. We got together with Dailylife Daughter #2, and had a good lunch, […]

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Day 74

Monday, March 12, 2012

WOW!  The new Honda Pilot got 24.3 miles per gallon coming over from Missoula to Spokane, all at the speed limit, mostly 75 mph, with a mountain pass and 4th of July Summit!  They told us mileage would go up, and it is! (Canon Powershot on automatic) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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