The Plantation

This is our last blog about our trip to Hawaii! On one of our vacation days we went to a place called "The Plantation." We saw so many more things than just these pictures, like how to open a coconut, Macadamia Trees, and a myriad other plants growing in the islands. We had one of the best lunches EVER (no joke, Jesse even took a picture of my Mahi Mahi dish when it arrived!):
and then we took a cool little train around the Plantation to see all sorts of plants native to the islands:
My favorite parts were the orchids (my favorite flowers), which grew at the Plantation with no soil simply on top of the ground (totally cool). Here are some of the gardeners working on giving the plants support to grow without soil:
Then there were the coffee trees, which had all ages of coffee beans growing. The Plantation harvests the beans from these trees and makes some delicious coffee varieties which they sell in their gift store. I have never seen coffee trees before and thought they were really cool:
There were also beautiful bougainvillea bushes covering the outskirts of the Plantation. They were so bright and beautiful and truly "riotous with color" just like in the classic novels. What a treat to see all of the flowers with the rainforest mountains behind them and the bright sky!
Finally, here is a picture of me with my oldest nephew, Tyler as we were just walking around and having fun :-)