Hard labor, day one

So after our initial first three days being guests here at Hedonesia, it was time to roll up our sleeves and get working. I will hopefully be doing a mural here, I'm working on sketches now. In the meantime, Dj and I offered to do some hard labor to get in shape for future farms. For our first day we began by fighting back the jungle in some of the ornamental plant plots. It was fascinating-- really interesting to see how the jungle weeds literally attack the other plants to gain a leg up on soil space or sunlight. We had to untangle vines from plants, pull up cane grass, and generally clear weeds from the various plots. We did that for three hours, then went out to the warm pools and another local beach in Kahena.

This beach is wicked! As you pull up on the side of the road, there are a handful of cars all parked together in front of a street sign. As you walk towards a little pathway, you find a cliff that has rocks arranged into a rough step pattern allowing a person to climb down the wall to a hidden black sand beach. The beach is mostly full of nudists and neo-hippies and some really friendly locals. Dj went into the water with a few of the other guys who drove with us and I sat and watched whales spraying out in the distance. Soon everyone forgot about the whales because it had started to drizzle and a huge rainbow appeared, beginning in the little cove where we were. We were literally at the end of the rainbow. After a little while a girl named Rain dropped by and offered us coconuts and lilicoi. The 6 of us there split the fruit and realized that the coconut was awesome dipped in the lilicoi. Really tasty. The beauty was just amazing. We climbed back up the cliff and then headed back to the hostel for a great night's sleep.