Surfers and a Rum Tour

 Saturday, July 23

Lazy day today, pretty much just hung around the resort in the morning and early afternoon.

Tried my hand at capturing surfers in motion, using shutter priority set at 1/1000th of a second and the telephoto lens.  More practice needed, still experienced motion blur, perhaps 1/2000th?

Later in the afternoon, we got in the rental car and drove over to Lihue.  Martha had booked us for a tour of a sugar cane plantation where rum was made some time ago.  The jungle has reclaimed most of where the sugar cane was and all that remains are small fields of other crops, and some animals.

There was some drinking of rum involved, it being a rum tour after all, so I wasn't paying much attention to camera settings.  Sorry.

Alpacas

Donkeys

photo courtesy of Larry.

We sampled 4 types of rums as our guide commented on their flavors and usage.

Mai Tai!

unorthodox pano by tour guide

photo courtesy of Larry.

This herd of pigs was gathered and waiting for us, 

tortillas were thrown from our "Safari Bus" for 

their snacking....

photo courtesy of Martha

Another rum concoction, this time with freshly

picked star fruit as garnish

photo courtesy of Martha

photo courtesy of Martha

Part of the tour were four nurses from the Philippines.  Martha of course made instant friends of them, commonality of occupation helped of course but there was rum involved too.  ;)

Martha and the nurses from Philippines

Martha photobombs a rather happy group of youngsters