We have been learning how to harvest different fruits like bananas, avocado, tangerine (gotta pick em just right or they tear), star fruit and how to do tree grafting. The banana process is quite satisfying, it requires chopping down the tree with a machete! The tree is going to die anyway because it is at the end of its lifecycle, so we aren't unnecessarily hurting it...little baby tree shoots come off the main tree to continue living and producing. The tree is very soft and the machete just slices through it. The way to tell if it's ready to harvest is if the flower at the end of the banana bunch is dead, if there's any life left it is not ready. We got a huge hauled of bananas, which will not be wasted with Mike around...
On Sunday we went to a yoga and surf day, at Honoli'i Beach Park, that was provided by one guys that lives at the farm...it was so nice to sit in the sun and relax. The waves were very big and I decided to give surfing a try. I went out into the smaller waves which were still extremely powerful, I have absolutely no training with a surf board so I was just going with it. After a few attempts I caught a wave and went zooming, it was exhilarating to go that fast...felt like I was flying. Later in the day I tried again but got carried out a little too far and got machine washed by a big wave...I'll stick to the small waves for a while and get some instruction...
Mike caught a wave too and got to feel the exhilaration, he was so excited that he forgot to try to stand up...at the last second he was like "oh yeah, gotta stand up" but it was too late the wave had started to wane and the shore was too close. Unfortunately we don't have any surfing pictures as we were both in the water.
The highlight of yesterday was going swimming at Carlsmith Beach Park and seeing a sea turtle!! I
noticed him first and called everybody over. He was so big, probably 3 and a half feet and came right up to us!! He was very friendly and stayed with us for about 15-20 minutes but a lady came over, got in the water and started touching him and pulling at him, he swatted at her and left. It's actually illegal to touch the sea turtles because their skin is so sensitive to oils and bacteria. It was so beautiful to get to see that gentle creature in his natural habitat and not in a zoo...I loved it and I think I connected with him telepathically...but I could also just be crazy...
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