TROUTS
LATEST PHOTOS
June,
2004 – Issue #37
BOB
AND CAMILLE AT HOME ON MAUI
WHEN IN DOUBT,
TAKE HER OUT
Bob generously
decided to celebrate Camille’s 50th birthday June 4th by whisking her away
to the Big Island of Hawaii. Here we are at the airport before the
flight.
PUDDLE JUMPER
We flew
Pacific Wings – a one-propeller plane with room for 9 passengers. It’s
just a hop, skip and jump from Maui to Big Island. Less than 30 miles
as the tern flies.
It is always a
treat to get a bird’s eye view of the islands, in this case we are looking
at the north shore and the Hana coast.
DESTINATION:
PEACE AND TRANQUILITY
We stayed at
Waianuhea on the east side the nights of June 3rd and 4th. For more
pictures, click on An Elegant Escape.
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY!
After a
restful night at Waianuhea, Camille woke up on her 50th Birthday and opened
a present from her Mom and Dad. They had sent her a beautiful gold
watch with a diamond in the face and hearts in the band!
THEN
Bob took Camille riding for her 50th
birthday. For more photos, click on Birthday
Ride.
KONA BREWERY
Before
checking into a second bed and breakfast on the west side, we stopped at the
Kona Brewing Company
for lunch. Bob drove right to it even though it had been four years
since we had last been here with Mike Illo. The beer and pizza was
every bit as good as we remembered. It was so good, in fact that after
eating here on Saturday, we came back for lunch again on Sunday.
KONA COFFEE
Hawaii is the
perfect place to grow good coffee. This is a glimpse of a small coffee
plantation. From what we saw, anyone with a spare acre on the west
side uses it to grow coffee.
WELCOME TO THE
WEST SIDE
At check-in
time on June 5th, we came to a place where the welcoming committee looked
like this. For more photos, click on First
Class.
SIGHTSEEING
This is what
tourists do. They drive around in a rented car and take photos.
On the left is pandanus tectorius, locally known as hala or screw
pine. Brought to Hawaii centuries ago, every part of the tree provides
materials for housing, food, medicine, ornaments, fishing, religion, and
folklore. On the right, Bob enjoys the salt air from a precarious
perch.
POLOLU
OVERLOOK
Both with and
without the pandanus trees.
A GREAT PLACE
FOR A DUMP
What trip
would be complete without a trip to the landfill? We just had to check
it out. There are two landfills on Big Island and this is the one on
the west side. As you can see, there isn’t much else going on out here
on the lava fields.
WAIMEA
RANCHLAND
We drove from
the landfill to Waimea to see how long it would take. It only took 20
minutes to get from barren lava to lush pastures.
We didn’t
alter the color in this picture at all. If anything, it was more
electric than shown here. Waimea is the home of the Parker
Ranch, the largest
private ranch under single ownership in the United States,
spreading approximately 175,000 acres.
LAST CALL
At the end of
the trip, we drove to one of 21 transfer stations to drop off our recycling.
LUCKY GIRL
Camille poses
with some of the presents she has received for simply being born and
enjoying a long life. She wears her new watch. From the left are
some games; marbles, tiddly winks and Zitternix (a German
Pick-up-stick game), a barrette made from Belizean Black Poison Wood,
a Hair pin made from Honduran Rosewood, a few books, luxurious scented
moisturizing cream from Pamela and some new music by Greg Brown. Not
shown is the digital camera Bob used to take this photo, the little things
we have now forgotten and one mysterious something yet to arrive. Bob
has been giving Camille presents for this birthday for months and it isn’t
over yet!
TI BERRIES
These are the
fruit of the Ti plant or
Cordyline fruticosa As far as we know, these aren’t edible. But
they sure look inviting!
LUNCH ESCAPE
It took
Camille a year to figure out that if she walked down this path
past the
lagoon behind Aloha Recycling
she would end
up here.
This has
become a non-negotiable part of Camille’s day. A barefoot walk on the
beach only takes 30 minutes and is incredibly refreshing. These photos
were taken on June 17.
MEANWHILE
Back at the
yard, Jodie and Lloyd have taken on the hot, sweaty chore of trimming up the
hibiscus between the Maui Monument and Aloha Recycling office trailers.
MAUI FILM
FESTIVAL
On June 17th,
we went to see Woody Harrelson’s movie “Go Further” at Maui
Community College with Bob and Kelly King, Will and Amanda, Pam and Shaun
and others. For more photos, click on Maui
Film Festival.
BIRTHDAY BOUQUET
As Camille was
adding photos to the album on June 18th, a van drove up with this fragrant
birthday gift from Mahlon. Thank you, Mahlon for keeping the birthday
celebration alive!
TARO CHIPS
Paul and
Jennifer gave us two nice taro corms which Bob turned into chips on Sunday,
June 19.
NEW BREWING
SYSTEM
Bob has begun
brewing beer in these HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) kegs and is phasing
out the old, vinyl kegs.
HAPPY SPUDS
Although it
has turned dry, these potatoes are flourishing.