The Good The Bad and The Ugly

[Carey]

Amazing stuff you can get only here:
Sitting on a tropical shoreline, with the trade breezes rustling the cocopalms, looking up to a couple of snow capped mountains;
a waterfall that can create amazing rainbows
double & triple rainbows (and most days having rainbows!)
more clean fresh water than almost anywhere else on earth (the most vital thing we could have!)
paddling around the bay, with no particular place to go
snorkeling with turtles & fisheys (thats the marine bio in me!)
warm friends & great school mates
starry nights that are amazing
and of course, a great forum to exchange views & ideas

[PunaLover]

mahalo carey, that's what I'm talkin about! give me a P, give me a U.........
The beauty of this place amazes me everyday,..
............I don't have to go to town.
I posted a couple captured beauty shots onto the yahoo punaweb friends site. I am so glad cameras are digital. I couldn't afford the film.

[mella l]

LOL Malolo, try wait petah!

Here is another thread for you alls, reading pleasure/passtime.

http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4052&FORUM_ID=2&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=My+top+five+indulgences+in+puna%2E%2E%2E%2E%2E&Forum_Title=A+Punaweb+Forum




mella l

[mella l]

Opps, one more, gotta run.


http://punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1317&FORUM_ID=8&CAT_ID=1&Topic_Title=Your+Favorite+Subdivision%21&Forum_Title=Building+in+Puna

mella l

[hooligal]

I can wax poetic about Puna for hours - just ask the Mainland friends I'm staying with right now

I came from West Oakland - major 'hood, lotsa gangs, gunfire nightly... so that may shed a bit of light onto my 'favorite things':
* I can look any stranger in meet on the street in the eye, smile and say "hello" . The smile is always returned. In my old neighboorhood, it was "what you looking at B*ch".
* when I go to the store, the person helping me looks me in the eye and says hello or aloha. I haven't had anyone ring me up while talking to their friends on a cell phone or completely ignoring me when I ask how they are doing.
* no road rage, people cutting me off, honking or obscene jestures. Folks stop to let me cross the street or pull out into traffic. I haven't been tailgated at 75 mph because I'm going too slow.
* i know my neighboors, their kids, dogs, cats, what's going on in their lives. We wave or stop & chat on our evening dog walks.
* folks I've met here know how to slow down and relax. There isn't the urgent "I'm missing something - must DO, must GO GO GO" mentality...folks here can just hang out on the deck and talk story & know it's true quality time.
* peaceful quiet (apoligies to all those plagued by helicopters and frogs). I'll take a coqui over a gunshot any night. No buses, bart, jets, planes, trains, sirens or open-piped motorcycles at all hours of the night.
* the sound of the ocean while I sleep.
* I see something new every time I snorkel in the tide pools.
* oh the beautiful stars! I can see the milky way.
* egads, lava. and jungle. Sunrise on Mauna Kea.
* we don't have Kona traffic
* City of Refuge gives me chicken skin. OK, that's Kona side, but still.
* i can snorkel every day. I can fish. I can hike (R.I.P. open access to Green Mountain)
* a walk around the neighboorhood (or into the back yard) for bananas, guava, pineapple, avos, mangos.
* Mother nature waters my garden
* I can read the local paper every morning without seeing a new murder or violent crime.
* I'm not a 'whacko' if I want to live off grid in a shipping container & grow my own food.
* choosing which shoes to wear consists of color-coordinating my slippahs to my sarong.
* moonrise at the hotponds with friends & a cold beer. The sunrise hot pond lap-swimming excersize crowd.
* folks throwing chakas driving down the road.
* it's warm, even when it's cold





Edited by - hooligal on 11/16/2007 09:53:11

[Rumi in Hawaii]

Mgeary, I, too spent ages 10-14 on Oahu...as an Air Force brat. And it was one Christmas that we spent at Kilauea Military Camp that we walked across the crater, and saw fern forests and I saw a spider that looked like a crab and we saw (I think) the Botanical Garden....I just fell in love with the Big Island, and knew I "had" to come back "home" someday. So here I am, and here's just a few things I love about being here:

* Star soup at night...so many stars, it's hard to find the constellations.
* Hiking around the volcano, every time it's still so awe-inspiring and sacred.
* Hapu'u ferns growing so tall in my "yard."
* Picking one of those "weeds" - yellow ginger blossom, and sticking it behind my ear...every time I turn my head, I get a dose of sweet perfume!
* Living in Mountain View means I have to close most of my windows at night, and sleep under a quilt (ahhhhhhh...), but it's never really cold.
* Picking wild strawberry guava along the road and eating it, even the seeds. A taste like no other....love those guavi!
* Growing weird plants like heliconias and bromeliads in my "yard" where on the mainland, those weird plants are only houseplants.
* Every morning here, I take a walk around the "yard" (no grass to mow, just cinders, and small space because mostly ohi'a trees) and look at all the things I've planted. The lettuce is growing up, the guava trees from Kauai are doing well, the basil and the rosemary and the cukes and the peas....this is November!!!!
* Yes, the smiles and the sweetness of people who are so incredibly helpful at stores and businesses. I am amazed and delighted each time it happens and I hope to never become complacent about the real aloha folks share so easily here.
* The rain...after living 30+ years in Colorado and Arizona, having so much rain means not only the lovely sound on the metal roof, but the catchment tank being full means no worries about water running out....a huge change from the arid desert living.
* If I don't like the weather, I can either wait a few minutes, or I can drive a few miles and it's different.
* I'm not bragging, but we don't have too many coqui's here (yet) and we kind of like the distant (so far) chirps at night, plus the other sounds - crickets and such. It's like summer nights in Wisconsin.
* Yeah, the laughs I get from some of the postings on Punaweb are wonderful, too, and all the advice (free!) and the aloha....
* It's just so sweet here....lucky to live Hawaii.

Thanks, Punapetah, for this thread....

Katie

Wherever you go, there you are.

[hooligal]

I forgot Plumeria on my list! The scent makes me swoon. Not to mention you just whack off a chunk, stick 'em in the ground and they grow.

And $2 orchids across from the post office. A dream come true for this self-professed orchid whore.

The gorgeous flowering trees along the waterfront in Hilo - I can't remember the name. Yellow, orange and red, blooming back in late August. WoW!

flower nut

[Kapohocat]

Nori's siamin in Hilo.

The nice guys at Central Supply.

The postmaster in Honomu.

Uncle George now retired who worked at Magoo's.

[PunaLover]

puna goat cheese, espically when you make it yourself, with basil you grew to make pesto for the pasta you made to go with the fish you caught.

KEEP PUNA RURAL

[PunaLover]

punaweb is kewl, where's that lighter 8)

KEEP PUNA RURAL