Ever since the first day I glanced at our Lonely Planet book I had one thing picked out that I really, really wanted to do: go to the Dole Plantation and do the world’s largest maze that happens to be shaped like a pineapple! If you go HERE you can see an aerial view.
But the excitement didn’t stop there. Oh no. Pineapple education is a fascinating thing. I love pineapples.
Tourist photo:
Here I am being excited and looking like I haven’t slept in 3 weeks…Yikes:
Pineapple plants only make 2 pineapples in their whole life! That’s crazy.
I had no idea how pineapples grew; they just come straight out of the top of the plant:
SO CUTE!!
Me and the pineapple:
They had a BUNCH of different varieties. I had no idea so many existed. (the one on the bottom left kind of scares me)
More pineapple education:
Together in the same photo thanks to the magic of Photoshop:
This is one of the coolest tree trunks I’ve ever seen:
We did not take the Pineapple Express.
The maze!
Inside the maze:
You had to find 6 stations that had stencils to prove you mastered the maze. It actually took a long time and we cheated just a little bit.
When we finally got out, we got some pineapple ice cream. YUM:
ENTIRE FIELDS OF PINEAPPLES, PEOPLE. Amazing.
Great pics! I love the mini pineapple & the trunk pattern. Very cool!
makes me wish I liked pineapples.
That looks way cool and makes me hungry for pineapples.
I love the way pineapples grow.
-Daralee
I’ve been there, too. Great place. Nothing beats fresh pineapple. Thanks for the picture tour. I might show it to my Kindergarten class…having a Hawaii day for a class party.
Thank You So Much! your little pictorial was perfect! My Seven year old asked Mommy how do pineapples grow? and Voila there you were like little tour guides for us 🙂
Very cool
Makes me a little worried that the pineapple population is going to get wiped out if we throw away the tops! only two in a lifetime really!