Definitely a barrel of some sort.

I could buy that alternative.

Thanks for reading- glad you enjoyed it! Hawai'i is my very favorite place on the planet though I doubt I'd be happy living there year around. It's great to visit every now and again.

No, not very palatable actually. I will stick to prickly pear fruit, or better yet, dragon fruit.

https://www.foragingtexas.com/2013/08/tree-cholla-cactus.html

Enjoyed your tour even without a bike... My youngest brother moved there in '76. I've been there 4 times. I could easily live there!

Thanks for posting!

Orchid tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhinia_variegata

I like your style!

Looks like red ginger... Lots of it growing in my brother's place in Papaikou, a bit north of Hilo.

https://hawaii.wildflowersearch.org/search?oldstate=gmc%3A19.725%2C-155.106%3Bcat%3AW%3Bcolor%3Ared%3Blocation%3A1570+Maikalani+St%2C+Hilo%2C+HI+96720%2C+USA%3Belev%3A366%3Bgms%3A10%3B&buttonName=none&hab=&Elev=&PlantName=&S__182554.x=74&S__182554.y=91

Hi-

Oh yeah- thanks for the correction! I wrote peacock but meant pheasant, based on what Google Lens had told me earlier.

Might be a kalij pheasant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalij_pheasant

I'm glad. We sure enjoyed it too. I try to make an annual pilgrimage to the sun every winter.

We escaped just under the wire in 2020: we were in St. John when the news began to spread of a mysterious, highly-contagious new respiratory disease spreading from China...

COVID stymied me in 2021 and 2022. That made this year's trip all the sweeter.

[thumbs up]

With 5 inches of snow outside right now, I am enjoying this immensely.

Not a very inviting-looking snack, though.

I went to college at ASU and really liked to wake up in the winter, go outside to balmy 50 degree air and look up at 4 peaks covered with snow!