March 23, 2005

Today's Adventures

Wide Green Fields, with wild sugar in the foreground Hamakua Coast near Ninole

We went on an adventure today, perhaps the last one we will have here on the Big Island as the next few days will be jammed packed with packing and moving fun. I will post photos tomorrow as part of tomorrows post.

Woody and I were awakened by the unofficial auto shop going full blast next door. and now there is a new one two doors down the other way. Radios blasting and just a mess. Lovely... there goes the neighborhood. Will be reporting them next week to the association once we leave reprocussions wont matter. The house is insured.

Woody said a lot of things today that were telling... and I realized that he really needs to get off of this island. He hates it here and can only understand my facination with the beauty of it. I dont think he has assimilated the culture in his heart only his head. He speaks pidgin like a native and say "yah" after every phrase. People are sure he is a foreigner.

He took me over to a work site where he stood guard at the now defunct Hilo Coast Power Station. Sitting on the site of the old Peepeekeo Sugar Plantaion Mill it was a facinating old structure. He said guarding it at night in the black dark with the wind and rain and the pounding surf 50 ft away then another 50 ft DOWN a sheer cliff was like being on an old sailing ship creaking and groaning in the storms. It was lovely to see the seas.

We hiked down a trail and through Plantation Mill ruins. You can see the staking for new homes. If we come back this will all be gone and that will be sad.

Drove from there to Kaiwaihae Harbor for Fish Taco and the sunset which I got great pics of... Was a lovely day all around...but as its near midnight....more tomarrow.

Ps keep praying for Terri Schiavo. I cannot believe the way this is going but I trust that God will do His will in this. She is nearly out of time.