09-08-2010, 09:37 PM
quote:It has some but not that much is green outside the golf course. If you get away from the golf course and condos to the single family homes, most people have gravel and rock yards with drought tolerant landscaping, and there are still lots of brown desert lots. The private water company that serves the Village charges way more than the County, and the wind dessicates everything, so it's really not an oasis like the resort down by the coast.
Kathy,
But Waikaloa Village does have tons of irrigated lawns and golf courses so it is a bit of an oasis in that desert climate.
I used to live in the Village and still go there all the time. There are wild turkeys roving like gangs, would come out of the house in the morning and see a dozen or so in the driveway any given morning, and that was one house on one street. They are all over.. Also along the highway where it's all dry. They do fine in the desert. I used to live near where zillions of turkeys were raised and that was the Mojave Desert, upcountry. (Of course they gave them some water, but apparently it was a good climate for them.)