Sun, 20 Feb. - The Caves
raining when we woke up :) but, then it became partly sunny. we all decided today would be a good day to go to the Cave and hike up Pumpkin Hill. we headed to town and rented bikes and down the road we went ...
Tim lead the way coz he'd been there before. we left the road by the airport and hit the very muddy trail, .....so glad we had mountain bikes!
we took a few turns and the road ended, we parked our bikes, and started down the trail .. through the jungle and very old coral heads.
not far, and we were there.
we had to climb down this really old rotten ladder. i love this picture. notice Chris on the right, holding his head, wondering what Tim had gotten us into!
this cute sign was at the entrance.
it turned out to be a really hot sunny day, and we were sweating. and here was this little FRESHwater cave just waiting for us.
it was quite cold when we first got in, but really felt good. it was so nice getting into fresh water, and not sea water ... it felt so clean.
Tim found a tunnel we could swim through underwater and come up through a hole on the other side.
the old coral was really pointy and sharp, it was not nice to walk on ... luckily i was wearing my Keens, they were perfect! i think i sold a few pair of them for the company today. we played around there for over an hour before we headed back.
we stopped at the airport because we had been told that there were lots of Hawaiian Wood Roses growing along the runway, ... and it was ok to go there. i had stopped there the other day on my walk and there was a sign that said something about 'prohibicion' and there was a 'policia' there, and several planes landing and taking off. so i passed on that. today it was deserted, so we rode our bikes up and down the runway, nice and smooth and dry .... unlike the road we had just been on. it reminded me of when we used to ride our bikes in our neighborhood on someone's new driveway when we were 'kids'. we finally found the Hawaiian Wood Rose. it was vining everywhere, and very pretty.
a very unusual flower. the flowers are about 2" high. and start out a buttery yellow color with a peach tint on the top.
then open up into a white tulip-like flower.
and eventually turn brown, with a round hard center, and they look like they are made out of wood, ...hence the name ... but they are a long way from 'home' if they are from Hawaii !
it is said that the seeds in these dried pod are
hallucinagenic .... haven't tried :) ... and the flower looks more like a tulip than a rose, ... it's just the dried flower that looks like a rose and is used in dried flower arrangements. i've searched the internet on this flower and i'm not finding what we have here ... so i'm not sure about the name ... perhaps Wood Rose is more closely related. anyway, they were very striking!
there were also a lot of these pretty yellow flowers vining over everything. i know this photo looks like a primrose, but it's a vine and different leaves.
more about the day's activities on the next post ....
Tim lead the way coz he'd been there before. we left the road by the airport and hit the very muddy trail, .....so glad we had mountain bikes!
we took a few turns and the road ended, we parked our bikes, and started down the trail .. through the jungle and very old coral heads.
not far, and we were there.
we had to climb down this really old rotten ladder. i love this picture. notice Chris on the right, holding his head, wondering what Tim had gotten us into!
this cute sign was at the entrance.
it turned out to be a really hot sunny day, and we were sweating. and here was this little FRESHwater cave just waiting for us.
it was quite cold when we first got in, but really felt good. it was so nice getting into fresh water, and not sea water ... it felt so clean.
Tim found a tunnel we could swim through underwater and come up through a hole on the other side.
the old coral was really pointy and sharp, it was not nice to walk on ... luckily i was wearing my Keens, they were perfect! i think i sold a few pair of them for the company today. we played around there for over an hour before we headed back.
we stopped at the airport because we had been told that there were lots of Hawaiian Wood Roses growing along the runway, ... and it was ok to go there. i had stopped there the other day on my walk and there was a sign that said something about 'prohibicion' and there was a 'policia' there, and several planes landing and taking off. so i passed on that. today it was deserted, so we rode our bikes up and down the runway, nice and smooth and dry .... unlike the road we had just been on. it reminded me of when we used to ride our bikes in our neighborhood on someone's new driveway when we were 'kids'. we finally found the Hawaiian Wood Rose. it was vining everywhere, and very pretty.
a very unusual flower. the flowers are about 2" high. and start out a buttery yellow color with a peach tint on the top.
then open up into a white tulip-like flower.
and eventually turn brown, with a round hard center, and they look like they are made out of wood, ...hence the name ... but they are a long way from 'home' if they are from Hawaii !
it is said that the seeds in these dried pod are hallucinagenic .... haven't tried :) ... and the flower looks more like a tulip than a rose, ... it's just the dried flower that looks like a rose and is used in dried flower arrangements. i've searched the internet on this flower and i'm not finding what we have here ... so i'm not sure about the name ... perhaps Wood Rose is more closely related. anyway, they were very striking!
there were also a lot of these pretty yellow flowers vining over everything. i know this photo looks like a primrose, but it's a vine and different leaves.
more about the day's activities on the next post ....
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