Happy Campers, Pt. 2

Mauna Road in the 90's~ 
This old ranch land twists through bumps - lava below and pukas- (holes) buried beneath thick dense grass and powdery clay dirt. As I've said before, it's enough to trip a mountain goat (and we have plenty of them). You need A.C. too ..we used to come back with dirt in our pores from our bikes or jeep (see bottom).

Wild Passion -pink blossoms..the fruit is edible but lacks the tartness and sweetness of the regular (lilikoi- former post) used for jam

 The road is dotted with gnarled Koa trees - taking on strange and often ominous shapes- arms draped in thick green moss, as they wave through moody clouds- One of my brothers used to make some nice tables out of this wood-

(click twice in photo bucket to enlarge these)

Youngest son with a bag of apples sometime around 92 or 93?

 (Except for the recent one of the gorse above- where you can see how dry)..

the rest of the series were taken back in the early 90's.

I didn't rescue all of my negatives but I was able to make copies and burned a lot to a CD.

Anyway, round-up corrals and pieces of machinary peer out of the ground from by gone days.. through what used to be beautiful thick clover grass which covered the hills - manicured by cattle. This has been crowded out with gorse (above) which has sadly taken over about 35,000 acres
so far.. 

Dead wood forest

(Pt. 3, coming up soon)