Macadamia Nut Farm

Last weekend we took a trip to the Macadamia Nut Farm....towards the northern shore of the island. It was a really neat experience. They film many movies/shows here. The restaurant where Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler meet on 50 First Dates is on the grounds here. They are currently filming alot of the new show "Off the Map" here. Edmond doesn't like the series, but I just think it's so cool that it is filmed here in Hawaii. And of course we love "Hawaii 5-0". I don't remember if any episodes were filmed at the nut farm though! Anyway, here are some pics...hope you enjoy!

Our driver/tour guide is wishing us luck by shaking the tei (I don't remember how to spell it) leaves at us. They do this at the University of Hawaii football games too.

They grow TONS of different kids of fruit/plants/flowers here. We were able to taste fresh coconut and guava.

There are lots of chickens/roosters on the island. I was very surprised by that when we first moved here! Here are some cute baby chicks. One got stuck behind a coconut and our tour guide had to free it!

Our tour guide started his own fire and then did a mini-fire dance. It was really neat!

Riley tasted coconut juice and shaved coconut. He seemed to like the juice (yuck), but wasn't a fan of the coconut itself....like is mama and daddy!

All of the women and children received these headpieces with a flower. The flower goes on one side if you are single and the other if you are married.

There was also a boat tour and of course it started raining while we were on the boat. It was still very cool. There is an island out here called "Secret Island". Apparently there were several movies (and maybe some of Gilligan's Island) that were filmed on it.

This was set up for filming of "Off the Map" that was taking place on Monday. So...if you watch the show, you'll have to look for this scene. Supposedly it's on an episode where a man in a parachute jumps out of a plane and lands in some nearby trees. They had that area marked off too!

Sorry about the underlined text....I can't figure out how to change it!!