Sunday, October 11, 2009

Dole Plantation

The Dole Plantation. Which makes Hawaii a Pineapple Republic, I guess. From this angle it's hard to see if the Dole flag or the Hawaii flag is higher. They're probably equal height.



Extremely common site in Hawaii: Japanese tourists. It was almost as if the Japanese invaded Hawaii.



A baby pineapple. In 8 more months, you'll be big enough to eat!



The plantation has the world's largest maze. So we had to go in, right?



Eek! A huge snail! The maze is too scary!



Michelle kept me safe, though, and we found all the hidden boxes.



After escaping the maze (32 minutes!) we took a ride on the Pineapple Express. No, really, we did.



Is this touristy enough for you?



How about this?




On the whole, the Dole Plantation was actually a good place to visit. Clearly a tourist trap, but still interesting.
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4 comments:

Scooter said...

Nice! I still think you should have found the geocache. I saw the photo with the red path. Did you find other caches while you were there? Did you worry about spiders and other vicious critters?

klund said...

I only claimed two caches - the one by the red path and a virtual cache. I don't even think there are dangerous critters on Hawaii (other than mosquitoes).

Scooter said...

Not so many poisonous ones, but you could reach into a cache area and find one of these: http://gbjorn.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/big-centipedes-in-hawaii/

klund said...

And we saw 3-inch long slugs. They were cute.