Hogged out an avocado-shaped bowl from a big avo trunk. Scorp, hook knife, bowl adze, no power tools. Not pictured: a chunk of ironwood I sometimes use to whack home the adze. Datapoint: the inside of a green avocado tree smells just like avocados! #carving#wip#kauai
Please enjoy these pictures of sheep and goats, large and small. It's a beautiful rainy day out here, full of green blessings for the year. #sheep#goats#kauai#portraitmode
Whale watching season is looking good. Just had a really great ride with Captain Jane on Kaua'i Zodiac Tours; this guy was about 200 yards away and he came aaaaall the way out of the water for us. Heard whale song and had a bunch of spinner dolphins right beside the boat, which is a big rubber zodiac, so you are right there on the water. Strongly recommended! #kauai#whalewatching#adventure
Sunrise rainbow over the pasture. That's Pu'u 'Ōpae in the background; when it's lit up like that in the morning with no low clouds you know it's going to be a pretty excellent day. #kauai#rainbow#goats
And now, some brand-new baby goats! First vocalizations, cute attempts at standing up, nursing, and other great moments. (Caution: this video contains mud made from some of the stuff that comes out when mammals are born, so if that sort of thing bothers you, please consider this a content warning.)
Enjoying #Thanksgiving on the north shore of #Kauai with family, friends and an unusually good beer. Hope holiday for you or not that today is a good day for you too!
After much patient waiting and watching, our first rack of red Cuban bananas is ripe! They start out purple, turn green, then back to purple again. Then they show a whole rainbow of red, yellow, and green, and finally go dark reddish orange.
Peels are thin, fruit is golden when backlit. They are huge (at least twice as heavy as your basic mainland grocery-store kind) and very, very flavorful.
"Making the island’s utility a #cooperative resulted in cheaper and cleaner power. It could hold lessons for communities around the country debating local utility control."
Cracking a few macadamia nuts. Our tree is either the sole survivor or one of the children of Jay and Eula Kuhns' 1939 farm, which was one of the first places mac nuts were planted on Kaua'i. (The PDF linked below says the orchard was a total loss after Hurricane Dot, but satellite photos from the 60s suggest otherwise.)
"the #mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for politics. People writing about #SpaceExploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye 👀 on how our national monies are spent."
📄 At 171 seconds ⏱️, the #SuperHeavy booster will separate from the ship and land in the Gulf of Mexico, around 30km from the shore. The ship 🚀 will land ~250km northwest of the coast of #Kauai 🏝️, ~ 90 minutes after liftoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnPOUfCeOYg