Oahu in pictures -- Day 7

Have you ever wondered where a pineapple comes from? Well, neither had we. But they recommended this tour, especially since we had a kiddo who would love the train ride. So we set out for the Dole Plantation, near the north shore.

We learned a few things quickly.
1. Pineapples are quite prickly. Megan touched one, and nursed this "owie" the whole tour through. She called them spiny like the crab that got her at dinner the night before!
2. You get a pineapple plant by HAND planting the top (green leafy part) of an existing pineapple. The plant will only yield two pineapples (one per crop) and it takes about 18 months to grow one.
3. You can easily SO VERY EASILY get too much pineapple. It was great, good, and then nauseating to eat so many pineapply things.






Boarding the train

Views on the train ride -- some gorgeous landscaping and fields of pineapple. They also had many other tropical plants and fruits planted along the train ride.

Continued nursing of the attack of the spiny pineapple