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E Komo Mai Alani waiting for Bob. (RIP sweetie) No more Macadamias! EVER! We're sorry too. Chameleon Photos are on the bottom half of this page.
Here is a cute note I got from a CRNA who was given some by his employer... ."Thank you!!! The Mac nuts are awesome! People who worry about CRNA's getting hooked on fentanyl have never eaten those Mac nuts you send. What's that on my back.......oh no the Mac nut monkey!!!!! Mac nut anonymous here I come."
Mollie the border Collie loves to crack the Macadamias but we are trying to discourage her - we erected a gate so she can not get in to the Macadamia nut shed. I think she'd be toothless by old age if we let her crack all she wants.
Ripe Macadamias Nuts You can tell they are ripe because they fall to the ground. Next, the husk dries and opens and you can see the Macadamia Nut inside. Grandsons help Bob pick nuts and everybody has lots of fun. Summer 2009 The Team......
It begins (and ends) with nut flinging into the bucket .
Jonah winds up, Ezra concentrates and even Grandpa Bob takes a shot
about life-sized, uncracked macadamia nuts
These animals below love our Macadamia trees:)
Jackson Chameleons During
the spring here, Jackson Chameleons are everywhere, breeding
and birthing their young. Bob could find one every day,... until
in late June and early July he couldn't find even one to show
our grand daughters ! Bob looked everywhere and surmised that
they were molting. That's a pretty vulnerable time. After nearly
a month, this was the first one we saw. Dave Gershman, our son in law, took these photos below of the chameleon on Bob A mature male Jackson Chameleon. Despite its fierce look in the photo, these are docile creatures that blend into our green foliage all too easily. This male Jackson is nearly full grown. You can see wisps of a recent molt in these photos too. A female does not have those horns you can see projecting from this male Jackson Chameleon's forehead. Two male Jackson Chameleons fighting- Spring 2011!
It is a pushing fight.They do not even bite at each other. No blood lost and the bigger guy was the winner and they both trundled away- probably back up into the coffee trees.
Wild pigs live in the rainforest just above our farm and sometes it is a fight to see who gets the Macadamias! The wild pig's diet consists of avocados, macadamias, the inside of tree ferns, and whatever they can snarfle up from wet mud. When the pigs get too close to our house - we can see them from our dining room table, and if they go after the dogs, Bob has to call a halt and he humanely & permanently discourages them.
This is my brother's pig which they feed from above, but it is wild. She weighs about 100 pounds
wait a sec......one last interesting object with family ties Even the shy Bufo marinus (about 7 inches) almost hiding under the leaf matter, lives on our farm According to Honolulu Magazine, December, 1995, page 22. "C. E. Pemberton gives Paradise of the Pacific this account of how he single handedly introduced the toad for the Hawai'i Sugar Planters Association, in an attempt to control Hawai'i's spiraling insect population: 'In 1932 the writer collected 148 adult Bufo marinus in Puerto Rico and brought them to Hawai'i packed in boxes of excelsior. Part of this lot was sent by express...almost all arrived in good condition after the three weeks journey.' Within three years, these colonists had multiplied impressively - the HSPA" note: Dr Pemberton was a distant relative of mine.
SMITHFARMS is two miles up a winding 4 wheel drive road! We don't encourage visitors for a few reasons- it IS a 4 wheel drive road with serious private road liabilities, it IS our (only) house, we often have a muddy, jumping dog, and if we are talking and walking, we aren't getting our work done. Hope you understand, so the map although accurate, is just for fun. H is the Highway and S is where we live
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