pure kona > wrote in
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> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:07 -0600, Andy > wrote:
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>>pure kona > wrote in
m:
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>>While we couldn't navigate the whole island of Maui, I only saw sugar
>>cane fields.
>>
>>Maybe times have changed since 1983.
>>
>>Andy
>
> Hard to convince you Andy indeed, but I moved to Haliimaile- upcountry
> Maui, in 1974 and lived in the midst of a pineapple field. You are
> correct---on the flat land of Maui is a huge sugar plantation-
> apparently the last in the State- Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar. Out
> past Lahaina, in Honolua/Kapalua there are also acres of pineapple.
> Guessed you missed them. Of course pineapple is a low growing plant
> while sugar cane is a tall grass that waves in the wind.
>
> aloha,
> Cea


Cea,

All my time in the Hawaiian islands, Maui especially, I never saw pineapple
plantations. Tour guides mention Lanai ans the industrial pineapple
plantation of Dole. Never visited.

BTW, I'm responsible for beginning Kilauea's erruption. Filled an airplane
rum bottle with black sand from Black Sand Beach on the southern tip of
Hawaii.

We flew out of Kona a day later as the volcano began. I have the bottle of
black sand lava I wasn't allowed to take on a shelf in my office and have
been meening to return it to appease Pele.

Andy