Our Wonderful House On The Big Island

We feel very fortunate to have found a lovely house to call home on the eastern side of the big island near Hilo. Our hostess Gwin, is in Colorado caring for her elderly mother but Mango, her ex, lives in the back of the property in his tiny-house and is simply fascinating to talk to (nevermind very diligent regarding our needs). There are no tourists in our neck of the rain forest and the many local residents we have encountered are all extremely friendly and forthcoming with their knowledge of the area.

A peaceful spot to hang out with the morning coffee and contemplate life on the big island!

Check out the coconuts growing right outside our front door.

There are many papaya trees to be had on the island. Some of them grow right in our yard.

This is one of the mini pineapple plants on the property. Not ripe enough to eat yet but when they are…….

We have used the lemons from this tree on many occasions.

The sun hits this plant just right every morning to make it seem like the top leaves are flowers.

There are so many different and beautiful flowers on the property that we created these 3 collages for your visual entertainment:

Rows and rows of macadamia nut trees in our backyard. We counted near 50 trees.

Laurie learned the art of cracking open the macadamia nuts we gathered. They are one of the hardest nuts to crack so to speak. They have an outer shell and a harder inner shell. Roast them at 225 for 15 minutes with salt and a buttery spray and oh my…..

Mango’s tiny-house toward the back of the one acre property.

Each house on the island seems to have one of these modern day cisterns. Rain water is captured and used for all needs water related except the drinking water. This can be found a few miles down the road at town run natural spring sites.

Aloha!