Aloha Day 10
Aug. 13th, 2006 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojOur last day. We mostly just
Chris could probably tell you what this flower is called, and where he found it. I can't. I just know that it's pretty, and that it gave me warm fuzzies to see Chris carefully photographing plantlife. My mom used to do that too :)
This is the ruin of a sleeping room. I don't think Hawaiians did much other than sleep in their bedrooms; most of life seems to have taken place outdoors. Makes sense.
Yes, I have an impressive burn on my chest. My bad. At least I was spared the tricolour shading I had when I went to Greece as a teenager and went to regular beaches for most of the trip and to a topless beach near the end. I was tan all over, except for my lily-white derriere and rosy rosy... um... top.
This is a flower that grows only near the sea. There is another flower, almost identical to it, that grows only in the mountains. Since both flowers look like half-flowers, when they come together, they make one full flower. There's an ancient Hawaiian myth about a star-crossed young couple in which the man fled to the mountains and the woman to the sea, and as they were about to die, the gods were touched by their plight and turned them into flowers instead.
The downside to this tender act of mercy was that they are now doomed to spend eternity as half-flowers, never to be joined with their true love again. Thanks, gods.
Daniel and Justin playing in the ruins of a men's eating room. Women and men ate separately, as it was kapu (taboo) to eat together.
This is a fishpond. The Hawaiians, clever folk, kept these in order to be able to harvest fish without having to paddle out to sea to get them. There were holes to let small fish into the pond, but as the small fish grew they eventually got too big to fit through the holes and became dinner instead.
Information about the fishpond. Note the Kapu sign. These were all over the place, marking historical, cultural, and environmental objects that should be treated with care.
Final sunset in Hawaii. This is now my desktop background.
Chris could probably tell you what this flower is called, and where he found it. I can't. I just know that it's pretty, and that it gave me warm fuzzies to see Chris carefully photographing plantlife. My mom used to do that too :)
This is the ruin of a sleeping room. I don't think Hawaiians did much other than sleep in their bedrooms; most of life seems to have taken place outdoors. Makes sense.
Yes, I have an impressive burn on my chest. My bad. At least I was spared the tricolour shading I had when I went to Greece as a teenager and went to regular beaches for most of the trip and to a topless beach near the end. I was tan all over, except for my lily-white derriere and rosy rosy... um... top.
This is a flower that grows only near the sea. There is another flower, almost identical to it, that grows only in the mountains. Since both flowers look like half-flowers, when they come together, they make one full flower. There's an ancient Hawaiian myth about a star-crossed young couple in which the man fled to the mountains and the woman to the sea, and as they were about to die, the gods were touched by their plight and turned them into flowers instead.
The downside to this tender act of mercy was that they are now doomed to spend eternity as half-flowers, never to be joined with their true love again. Thanks, gods.
Daniel and Justin playing in the ruins of a men's eating room. Women and men ate separately, as it was kapu (taboo) to eat together.
This is a fishpond. The Hawaiians, clever folk, kept these in order to be able to harvest fish without having to paddle out to sea to get them. There were holes to let small fish into the pond, but as the small fish grew they eventually got too big to fit through the holes and became dinner instead.
Information about the fishpond. Note the Kapu sign. These were all over the place, marking historical, cultural, and environmental objects that should be treated with care.
Final sunset in Hawaii. This is now my desktop background.
