Taro Fields LbNA #44629
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 21, 2008 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hanalei |
| County: | Kauai |
| State: | Hawaii |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Old2AK  |
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| Found by: | Eidolon |
| Last found: | Oct 12, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFaFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 21, 2008 |
We're a couple of old geezers who enjoy letterboxing, but who tend to limit our hiding and seeking activity to drive-bys and places that involve easy walks. If we're a long way from home, in a place we might not visit again, we think it's more fun to seek and find easy boxes in several different locations, rather than pursue one hard one. We think our "low impact" letterbox style works work well for families with young children, too.
Taro Fields
This box was re-planted in December 2009 in a slightly different place:
From Lihue, head toward Princeville and Hanalei on Highway 56.
At the foot of Hanalei’s misty green mountains lie fields of one of the most beautiful crops anywhere: taro. These heart-shaped plants grow intensely green in their flooded patches. Endangered Hawaiian birds find refuge among the gently waving stems. Taro leaves (sometimes called luau leaves) are similar in taste to spinach, while the corm, or underground stem, is cooked like a potato. The corm is also pounded into poi, the Hawaiian staple starch.
Look down on this emerald quilt of land from the Hanalei Valley Lookout, then head down the hill toward the fields, Hanalei River, and Hanalei town itself.
As you near the end of the hairpin turns and pass the "One Lane Bridge - 10 MPH" sign, you'll see a large unpaved turnout on the right. Pull out, park, and meander toward the large tree on the bridge end of the parking area, near the highway. We think the tree is a monkeypod--it has delicate leaves and huge pods; a shiny-leafed plant that looks like a split-leaf philodendron is using the tree as a trellis.
The letterbox is hidden in a low crotch of this tree, under a coconut husk. There is a rock on top of the box, under the coconut husk, to disguise the box in case the husk rots or blows away. This can be a VERY busy corner, so it may take a while for you to be able to recover and re-hide the box unobserved.
After you've stamped in and put the box safely back in its hiding place, head across the historic one-lane bridge* and enjoy a good lunch and some great shopping in Hanalei.
*According to Frommer's Kauai, the Pratt truss steel bridge was pre-fabricated in New York City and erected here in 1912; it's now on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks.
Taro Fields
This box was re-planted in December 2009 in a slightly different place:
From Lihue, head toward Princeville and Hanalei on Highway 56.
At the foot of Hanalei’s misty green mountains lie fields of one of the most beautiful crops anywhere: taro. These heart-shaped plants grow intensely green in their flooded patches. Endangered Hawaiian birds find refuge among the gently waving stems. Taro leaves (sometimes called luau leaves) are similar in taste to spinach, while the corm, or underground stem, is cooked like a potato. The corm is also pounded into poi, the Hawaiian staple starch.
Look down on this emerald quilt of land from the Hanalei Valley Lookout, then head down the hill toward the fields, Hanalei River, and Hanalei town itself.
As you near the end of the hairpin turns and pass the "One Lane Bridge - 10 MPH" sign, you'll see a large unpaved turnout on the right. Pull out, park, and meander toward the large tree on the bridge end of the parking area, near the highway. We think the tree is a monkeypod--it has delicate leaves and huge pods; a shiny-leafed plant that looks like a split-leaf philodendron is using the tree as a trellis.
The letterbox is hidden in a low crotch of this tree, under a coconut husk. There is a rock on top of the box, under the coconut husk, to disguise the box in case the husk rots or blows away. This can be a VERY busy corner, so it may take a while for you to be able to recover and re-hide the box unobserved.
After you've stamped in and put the box safely back in its hiding place, head across the historic one-lane bridge* and enjoy a good lunch and some great shopping in Hanalei.
*According to Frommer's Kauai, the Pratt truss steel bridge was pre-fabricated in New York City and erected here in 1912; it's now on the National Registry of Historic Landmarks.