Hawaii - Fifth day

We went to Foster's Gardens.
There is a small lizard in this picture.

There were many exotic flowers and plants.

Angel's Trumpet

This colorful bark is the smooth bark of Bagras Eucalyptus tree.

This very strange tree is a cannon ball tree. Sprouts flowers and fruit right from the trunk. The balls are filled with a foul smelling blue pulp that attracts peccaries, pigs, and chickens.

Bread fruit tree that was part of the story of "Mutany on the Bounty" about Captain Cooke. Breadfruit was an important part of the Polynesian Islands diet, and was introduced to Hawaii, not a native species. A carbohydrate, the starchy fruit tastes like fresh baked bread when cooked.

This plant looks like it has huge grapefruit growing in clusters. It has the look and taste of a grapefruit.

This is an Indian Mulberry tree aka Noni, which there is a popular concoction made of this fruit that is said to cure all maladies!

There was a green house full of orchids and related plants that don't have traditional roots, like ferns, staghorn ferns, and bromiliads.

More plants in the green house. I wanted to see the yellow flowers.

After we looked at the plants we got in the car and drove to Pali Highway, that goes over the summit of the mountains that divide the island north and south.
There are always clouds on the mountain. The street names were challenging for us. We had to reference streets like Kalalakua andKanekapolei, Nohonani and Namahana.

This is at Pali Lookout

We went down to the east shore. We drove until we came to Sea Life Park. They had aquariums that you can view from above water, and down under through windows.

This is a sting ray that swam around the perimeter every 10 minutes or so. There was also a small shark that would swim by with the fin out of the water.

This is a pic of Ed photographing the shark! We stayed for the dolphin show. It was enjoyable. Then we hopped in the car and went to watch the water while we ate a snack lunch.

There were lots of tidepools. We tried to find some wild life in the shallow pools, but they were very shy animals.

This is a not so wild surfer near by. They had to surf toward the rocks. I thought they were brave.

Ed did manage to get a quick shot of this crab before it scurried away.

In some areas, the water was pretty rough.

This is near the area called the Blow Hole.


These people were looking down into the area called Blow Hole and there were many people who walked down there to get a closer look. We decided to call it a day.