Tuesday, October 8

The Coconut Festival...

One of my favorite things about living here is being exposed to all the
 various cultural events and activities.
 
 
  My first Coconut Festival...

the coconuts--the stars of the festival
 
 Tongan Dancers
 
 Of course there was a  Coconut Cream Pie eating contest
 
 a pie in the face
 
 Kap Te`o Taifiti
 

 Kap weaving a basket
 
 making fire...
 
 he made fire  in like 20 seconds....I want him on my deserted island!!
 
 Throwing fire...

 throwing knives with fire!!
 
 Preparing to climb a 40 ft coconut tree.
 
 Nice view from up there (so he said:)

Here's a few coconut facts
 
Coconut trees produce fruit for 75 years and can produce 50 coconuts a year
 
the Hawaiian word for coconut is "Nui"
 
Early Spanish explorers called it coco, which means 'monkey face" because of the 3 indentations
(eyes) on the hairy nut resembles the head and face of a monkey.
 
 
Want to welcome Miss Melinda from Texas--my 100th follower!!
and of course many thanks to all my followers, you guys keep me blogging.
 
 
 
 
 

11 comments:

  1. like all the info and the photos of the man in red are awesome. i love coconut in all forms.. especially the pie. just a tad jealous of you seeing all this. I love drums!

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  2. Thank you for the kind welcome. I visited Maui, O'ahu and Kauai five years ago. I can't wait for my return visit.

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  3. Wow, that would be very cool to see and of course pawticipate in!

    Your Pals,

    Murphy & Stanley

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  4. how very cool! i'd enjoy that festival.

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  5. I love festivals! How fascinating and the weather looks perfect...of course, it is Hawaii.

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  6. Mom would love to attend that one
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    Benny & Lily

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  7. What an interesting festival. Sounds like fun! Lee and Phod

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  8. Nice pictures, looks like allot of fun!

    Pretty amazing to be able to make fire in 20 seconds and then run up a 40 foot coconut tree!

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  9. What fun! I LOVE the pattern on Kap Te`o Taifiti's drum!
    KZK

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  10. Wow, fun! Huh - 50 coconuts a year. That doesn't seem like that many - especially with all us mainlanders being big on coconut juice now!

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  11. That looks like so much fun!!!

    Oh, and look at that man climbing that tree! I wonder how he learned that!?!?!?

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