Travel Remembered

 In March of this year we spent a couple of weeks in Hawaii.  (Good Guy is making sure I make progress on completing my list of things to do before being too infirm to see and enjoy them.)

This is a picture of Waimea Canyon on Kauai.  This canyon is about ten miles long and a mile wide.  It's very picturesque, with lovely distant waterfalls and awesome gorges.  There aren't lots of places to pull off and properly gawk and take pictures, though.

As I've said before it tends to be the little things that give me a charge.  We took a tour of the island on Oahu and of all the breathtaking things we saw, this is one of the things that gave me a thrill.  We visited a Buddhist temple on lovely peaceful grounds where this happened.  Bird feed is available and these dear birds probably spend all day every day perching on people's outstretched hands, but it was a hoot to me to have birds eating out of my hand.

(BTW, I came home and dieted strenuously after seeing these pictures. And the task isn't completed yet.)

I'm not really a bird freak, but this entertained me too.  On Kaui there are many, many feral chickens who escaped during tropical storms that destroyed their coops.  I guess people had more urgent things to do than round up the chickens again.  They don't have the number of predators that we have here on the mainland, so they continue to survive.  It's funny to see chickens on the roadside where we might be accustomed to seeing ravens or crows.

Have a pleasant weekend, wherever you are.