Farmer’s Market and Isaac Hale Park

 We started the day off by going to a farmer’s market.  This one is held Sunday mornings.  It charged $2 admission and was very popular.



They had fruits and vegetables, honey, baked goods, jewelry, and clothes, plants, and lots of food to eat.  One booth was a fellow selling figurines that he makes on a 3-D printer.  We bought a coaster for the room (and maybe to take home) that is a plastic resin on a normal 4x4 ceramic tile, with a cork bottom glued on it.  And some flowers for the room.

Then we headed south for Isaac Hale Park.We can just drive down 130 until it ends, then take 137 East until it ends.  At least that’s the way it looks on Google maps.  But as we continue down 137, along the coast, it gets smaller and smaller.   Eventually it is little more than a one lane road thru a tropical rain forest.


As we get closer to the park, however, the rain forest gives way to lava flows.


And then back to rainforest.  Then another lava flow, and so on.

When we get to the park, it is a lava flow right out to the Pacific Ocean.

Another black sand beach.  Although it’s really not sand.  More like gravel and bigger pieces of lava.  But there are a couple of pools of water back from the beach where it is lava on one side and rainforest on the other.  Apparently thermal pools.  



One might just be the result of the sun on the water isolated from the ocean, but the other is definitely warmer than that.  Not hot, but warm.  Linda and I went in for a little while.


But it was fairly shallow (Linda is crouched down in the photo above), and the bottom is rocky — lava rock, so quite rough.

And then it was back to our part of Hawaii, which is called Hawaiian Paradise Park.  It is a development where they have put in streets and are selling lots of an acre or so for people to build on.  It’s laid out with a rectangular street grid like New York City.  Running from the main road (Highway 130) to the ocean are 4 main “Avenues” — Makuu, Paradise, Kaloli, and Shower.  These main streets are far apart.  Then running the other way are 33 numbered streets, which are much closer together.  We are close to the coast on 3rd Avenue.  It takes, literally, 10 minutes to drive from 3rd Avenue up to Highway 130, going by lot after lot after lot.  Some have been turned into homes, or gardens, but some are still wild, undeveloped.


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