Random Hawaii Adventures
Woman in the Middle | September 25, 2016There are a few other things we did in Hawaii which I haven’t told you about yet, but wanted to.
The first was the Green World Coffee Farm on Oahu, which was conveniently located on the way to Dole Plantation.
In addition to being able to buy delicious coffee to drink at home, taste free samples of coffee, and buy coffee drinks galore, the reason we stopped here was because they had actual coffee trees we could see. On their seven acre site they have 2000 trees, and you are allowed to go out and walk among them. Since certain people in our home drink lots of coffee (not me and Hubby!) and all of us are just curious people, we found this stop to be very interesting.
Coffee beans growing on the tree.
Rows of coffee trees.
Another adventure was going to see the Rainbow Wahine volleyball team play at the University of Hawaii. The uncles follow them closely, so we said let’s go to a game! The uncles got us all team shirts, so we would be properly outfitted, and off we went! We had a great time, even if the Wahine lost against UCLA. I wonder how many other college games start with both the Star Spangled banner and the state song? And if they did, would everyone in the audience (except for visitors, of course) be able to sing all the words to both?? They can in Hawaii!
Here we are in the stands with the Uncles.
Uncle Maka took us up into the Ko’olau Mountains to an overlook where you can see all of Honolulu. If it had been a bit more clear, he said we could have seen some other islands.
Diamond Head, from the overlook. Some where down there is our hotel as well.
Another stop we made was to the Bishop Museum. It is the place to go to learn about Hawaiian history and culture, as well as the culture of other Pacific islands and the natural history of Hawaii. The museum was founded in 1889. I could not post my photo, for whatever reason, on here. It just would not download. However, mine included scaffolding, so the photo below, by Stan Shebs, is much better anyway.
the Hawaiian Hall is filled with beautiful koa wood cases, displaying all kinds of things related to Hawaiian culture and history. You can see some of that in the background of the photo below.
Hanging in the hall is one of the original museum displays, the skeleton of a sperm whale, with one side covered in a papier-mâché body, the other side open to display the skeleton.
The Bishop Museum should definitely be on your list if you want to get beyond the tourist places and learn about Hawaii.
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