Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007
Subject: Aloha! Trumbles in Hawaii VIII - Foliage and Other Nature Stuff
There is a lot of pretty stuff in Hawaii (duh!). It is, of course, humid and tropical and all sorts of neat things grow there. There are also rats and mongooses (mongeese?) that were brought in by people. The rats came on ships and the mongooses were brought in to control the rats but mongooses are out in the daytime and rats are nocturnal so they pretty much peacefully co-exist. We didn’t see any rats (thankfully!) but Beth and I did see some mongoose (mongooses? mongeese? whatever).
There is a lei (purple and white kind of on the edge) but the rest of this stuff was collected while out on a walk.
The boys enjoyed these seed pods that they liked to think of as “boats”. The other picture is a cattle egret (also known as a buff-backed heron. As it turns out, it’s nothing all that special. According to www.honoluluzoo.org/cattle_egret.htm it is now on six continents and in 45 of the 50 United States…oh well.
Dead crab or maybe just a crab shell. How should I know? I don’t live near the ocean!
Bird
More plants (this is at the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial).
Cool tree.
The “Hitachi Tree”http://www.hitachi.com/IR-e/library/annual/2005/ar2005e_01.pdf
A cool tree near the “Hitachi Tree”
Flower.
Some seedpod thing or something.
Elizabeth, Kimberly and Caleb with a Rainbow Eucalyptus tree.
Snails.
Praying Mantis.
Trumble family with nice foliage in the background. We wore these shirts to church in Colorado today.
A banyon tree.
Another banyon tree. Note how the roots come down from the branches and create a whole bunch of stuff (roots coming down from branches, I guess).
Sunset near Ko Olina.
Hickam AFB and the Leong’s minivan (straight ahead).
Another sunset picture.
A crab or something.
The state flower of Hawaii is the Yellow Hibiscus.
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