{"id":695,"date":"2009-02-21T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laughingmonkey.org\/?p=695"},"modified":"2009-02-21T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T04:08:00","slug":"more-hawaii-notes-this-time-with-some-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/laughingmonkey.org\/?p=695","title":{"rendered":"More Hawaii notes, this time with some pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

As soon as we arrived, we hit a local market for provisions. I could not convince myself to indulge in Boone’s Farm Blue Hawaiian…<\/p>\n

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… but we did buy all sorts of tropical fruit. We got rambutan, which is a relative of the lychee, but looks like an overgrown strawberry with curled spikes …<\/p>\n

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… and these cute fingerling bananas which I’ve grown very fond of. This may be the first non-Cavendish banana I’ve ever had, aside from an occasional plantain. They have a delicate taste, but the sweetness has a slightly sharper edge, almost a hint of citrus. I wonder if I can find these in Portland?<\/p>\n

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Here is Magic Sands Beach, a tiny little spot in Kona, but the first opportunity we had to plunge into the Pacific on this trip.<\/p>\n

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One night we did a tour in a glass-bottomed boat, where I caught a brief shot of a manta ray.<\/p>\n

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The next day we hiked the Kilauea Crater. The hike starts up on a 400-foot rim surrounding the crater, …<\/p>\n

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… and then descends to the floor of the caldera. <\/p>\n

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The ferns growing on the crater rim hike are amazingly lush and large.<\/p>\n

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On the drive back towards Kona, we stumbled upon a tiny, rustic, rural graveyard dug from a lava-riddled hillside.<\/p>\n

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Tomorrow, we catch a shuttle to Kauai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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