Last Hawaii blog post! Just a few pics to share! Love and Aloha
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| Passion Fruit Flower! A beaut! |
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| Most unique orchid I saw on the island |
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| Wheatgrass! |
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| Smokey came a runnin' when I planted the cat grass...This cat knows what's up. |
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| The beautiful trellis we built! Ken's genius idea. |
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| Hand-built ramp to the garden shed (by Ken) |
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| Red Spanish Pineapple! |
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| A huge cave we scoped out on our way north! It extended underground for at least a half a mile! |
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| Coral art on the side of the road...shaka! |
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| Nudey beach! aka 67 beach |
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| Waialea Beach (69 beach) |
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| Lychee tree house |
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| Pololu Valley |
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| The lookout |
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| Tree swing! |
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| Inside the valley. Perfect place for camping. |
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| Nature gave me a four leaf clover! |
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| Wild horse we encountered on the trail |
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| Horses in Waipio Valley |
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| Eucalyptus Forest! |
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| Akaka Falls! |
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| Rainbow Falls! |
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| The most eastern part of the island. The freshest air there is! It travels all the way across the Pacific Ocean |
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| Champagne Pond...We hiked through a maze of lava rock to get to this pool of water heated by an underground lava tube. It was the clearest, most pristine water I've been in! Underwater you could see the temperature difference. Breathtaking! |
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| Wine tasting @ the Volcano Winery! We had 8 different types of wine. From Pinot to Mead, all of the grapes are grown at an elevation of 4,000 feet |
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| Completed (and producing) garden beds! |
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| One of our last phenomenal sunsets on the island |
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| Welcome to our camping space @ old airport beach! |
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| Three day old kitten! |
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| This Buddha statue welcomed us into the Paleaku Peace Gardens! |
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| This is obviously not my photo, but I wanted to put up a birds eye view of the Galaxy Garden we saw! This is the worlds first accurate walk-through model of the Milky Way. It is mapped in flowering plants and based on current astrophysical data. |
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| Striped bromeliad |
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| "The Sand Mandala is a Tibetan Buddhist tradition involving the creation and destruction of mandalas made from colored sand. A sand mandala is ritualistically destroyed once it has been completed. However they are sometimes left to emanate blessings form the dieties they represent. Paleaku is fortunate to care for two beautiful sand manadals one is on healing" Medicine Buddha" and one is "Chenrizig, The Buddha of Compassion." Historically, the mandala was not created with natural, dyed sand, but granules of crushed colored stone. In modern times, plain white stones are ground down and dyed with opaque inks to achieve the same effect. Before laying down the sand, the monks assigned to the project draw geometric measurements associated with the mandala. The sand granules are then applied using small tubes, funnels, and scrapers, until the desired pattern over-top is achieved. Sand mandalas traditionally take several weeks to build, due to the large amount of work involved in laying down the sand in such intricate detail. It is common that a team of monks will work together on the project, creating one section of the diagram at a time, usually working from the center outwards." |
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| Having lunch in Centrailia, Washington after a highly anticipated flight home! Onward to Bellingham! |
