December 10
Today we decided to revisit the Dole Plantation by city bus. It was about a 1 1/2 hour drive but we saw sights we hadn’t seen before. It was really interesting travelling down the major highway in a city bus.
One of the reasons we had wanted to return was because there was a small botanical garden to see.
There was also a little tour through the plantation and ‘pineapple growing’ was explained. One plant will only produce 3 pineapples and that process takes almost 5 years.
Our guide through the gardens had mentioned that we were really close to the North Shore again so we thought we’d carry on and have another look at the tall waves. They weren’t quite as high as a couple of days ago, but they were still pretty awesome.
Stopped for lunch in Haleiwa as she had also mentioned that no trip to the North Shore was complete without a stop for ‘shaved ice’. So after lunch we looked for the store she told us about – Matsumotos’s and tried out this North Shore specialty. In reality it is a snow cone with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the bottom. It was pretty good! As you can see from the photo, there were a few others who thought the same. Good thing there was a bench outside the store. (The policeman with white gloves was directing traffic through an area of construction.)
Then it was a really long trip home – about 3 hours but again interesting as we went places we hadn’t seen before. And of course you can’t go to Dole and come home without a pineapple!
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