February 1 - Kahalui, Maui, Hawaii
Our tour today didn't leave until after lunch, so we had an easy morning doing a little more organizing of the cabin. We're learning what works best storage-wise. We had breakfast in Compass Rose and for the first time, service was quite slow. Turns out there were health inspectors on board and they got the timing of the kitchen off, so things took much longer to come out than normal. Our tour was to a pineapple farm. We weren't expecting much, but it turned out to be quite interesting. There are only 2 farms in Hawaii any more, Dole which has something like 3,000 acres and Maui Gold, where we went, with 800 acres all of which are planted and harvested by hand. Our guide, Tim, who was giving his last tour before moving back to the mainland, went all out with the goofiness. Ready for picking Baby pineapple The "perduncle" that we're holding is supposed to be very romantic, according to Tim. I keep forgetting to mention that t...