"It rains for days so you stay inside and shut your door". Except we decided to get the hell out of Huelo and even inspite of the fact that the biodiesel mercedes is taking water on in the trunk (or boot) we headed over to Lahaina for some respite.
Picked up some breadfruit that had fallen next to a cemetary, and later some mangoes. We stopped at "baby beach" where some locals where having a party, but it started drizzling and there were no fresh water showers so we took off in the direction of the park with the grass on the southside of town. Picked up a few bags of mangoes on the way. Found one tree in an abandoned lot, but some guy was already up in the tree knocking them down while his girlfriend sat in the car smoking cigarettes. They had almost a bed full of mangoes and a few buckets full of avo's so I guess they were doing it semi-professionally. He sort of reluctantly told me I could have "a couple"...
Lichen got stuck into the mango's while we cruised the streets of Lahaina looking for more fruit. Lorinda was too happy about the mess all over the back of the car but at least she was screaming. We spotted a few specimens of a different variety of Breadfruit, without serrations on the leaves, and misshapen fruit, but they weren't ready yet.
The second beach was pretty nice, but the showers were out of order...
At the weekly "community dinner" we had sweet potato from the garden and salad, fried breadfruit, stewed monstera fruit and pineapple cake. Myra brought some quinoa but other than that every dish had somethin' from the 'aina.