Garden of Eden (WARNING: pic heavy!)

Great day today. My wife did a two mile rough water ocean swim, so I took the monkeys to eat. You guys knew food would be involved somehow, right?



We had our 4H meeting today, so we spent the afternoon on a guided botanical tour. Here are some of (read a lot) of the tree and plant pictures. Pardon my focus, was using the phone camera.





This blue-eyed stud thought he was going to hook up, but was shot down.







Our guide was great. Gave us lots of info and spent the afternoon with us. And it was hot! 90 degrees.



This palm was very tall.





Pele's hair.





Like beauty and the beast.













Just for scale... about 6'2" and 250.



Big nuts.





Phew... Thank you for indulging me on my loooonngg posts. This one isn't done yet, but I figured you guys could use a break by now.

 

Continued...

They thought the loulu palm was extinct, but happily not so. The tiny fruit taste like coconut.















Can you see the parrot?





Little pagoda.









What black pepper looks like. When I used to travel to Pohnpei, people would always ask my to bring them Pohnpei (now called Ponape) peppers.



I just like bamboo.



Napoleon's hat.



Anyone have tree envy?



Baobab



Find all kinds of things...











Gonna wrap it up on the next post. Promise.

 

And the wrap up...





Into the green house we go. 90 degrees outside, really hot inside.























After our tour, my wife complained about being thirsty and hungry, so I gave her my water (woulda given it to her sooner if she said something) and was gonna take her for dim sum, but they were closed. So the plan was to go home and have some popcorn to tie over while I smoked some salmon.

So I get the kiawe smoldering while the wild salmon is salt curing. Then I rub it with a little seasoning and a bunch of honey.



Smoke away while relax, hydrate with coconut water, watch a whole bunch of Psych episodes (monkey's idea), and then a simple dinner is served.



Pau.

 

perfect!!!
exactly what i was looking for

 

Wow ! You really have an eye for photography !

Thanks for sharing !

 

Nice of you to say. Truth be told, I just went crazy and snapped away. Just picked some of the better looking or more interesting (to me anyway) to post.

 

Bonus flowers from my daughter's tennis practice. Didn't like the thick clouds of gnats though.