04 Sep - Dole Plantation

It was nice having a good long four day weekend around Labor Day. On Friday we tried to get up to the North Shore, but the traffic was awful. So we turned around and stopped on the way home at Dole Plantation.

As has been posted Kim and the boys have visited a couple of times, but the rest of us hadn't taken in this quintessential Oahu experience.

You learn some pretty good stuff about pineapples, mostly that you don't want to be the one who has to pick them. They have very prickly leaves requiring workers to be covered head to toe and it's hot.

We rode the Pineapple Express which takes you through some old pineapple fields and gives you a little audio tour of Hawaiian pineapple history.

They also have some pretty nice botanical gardens which Andy and Grandmother are enjoying

Baby pineapple in their exhibition garden

View from the train ride across some gardens, irrigation lake and the Waianea Mountains