Cont. tours, Lyon Arboretum very nice in valley behind U.H. in the hills, old park with huge old trees cannonball tree, monkeypod, breadfruit, blimbi,miracle fruit, on and on beautiful place. Frankies Nursery was just amazing Very nice layout of trees everything was growing all over. Had nice fruit layout and fruit for sale. You could see evidence of wild pigs all over the place. I think Frankie said he likes his pig's smoked by friend of his. We then went to Hilo on Big Is. stayed @ place called Dolphin Bay Hotel place had mature starfruit 30' tall and Avocados big pail green fruit falling to ground. Every morning you could get banana, papaya,avocado, plus said we could pick what we wanted ( we ended up w/avocado for the rest of or trip all most. So the next tour was outside Hilo @ USDA Repository which we still got to tour just no officals around much, and with every possible type of fruit tree and one gent showed us the Avocado section I could see Greengold and Nishikawa hanging nice big fruit also saw Kahalu'u hanging. The fruit there that looked like the fruit we got from Dolphin Bay Hotel was' Bruce' same light green color, had nice fruit display also. Then on to lunch and to Oscar's place, wow for what your growing in Oscar, I'm amazed lot's of lave cinders for drainage. Way to many people but still a nice tour wish I could have talked more to you Oscar, oh and a taste of rollina d. and some sweet starfruit, nice layout of orchard plant families together!Then off to Kona for R&R two tours next day @ Hawaiian Chocolate Factory very interesting didn't know that they ferment fruity layer on outside of bean to get off. Last tour was Ranch managed by Ken Love lot's of old fruit trees and coffee tasted santol and dragonfruit. Sent some nice clean seeds home to me!!!
8)Tasted Kahalu'u avocado before we left was best ever creamy with butery slight nuttyness goodness