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	<title>A Kauai Blog</title>
	<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog</link>
	<description>Living and hiking on the island of Kauai</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Poisonous Plants of Paradise</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/poisonous-plants-of-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
	<category>Reviews</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poisonous Plants of Paradise: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Injuries from Hawaii's Plants by Susan Scott and Craig Thomas, MD. Available at the Kapaa library (and possibly others), H 615.952 Sc under Hawaiiana.

This is a fascinating book if you're interested in the outdoors and/or the specificities of flora in our isolated islands. Written as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sonja&#8217;s Homegrown Lilikoi Soufflé  Pie</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/sonjas-homegrown-lilikoi-mousse-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/sonjas-homegrown-lilikoi-mousse-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
	<category>Food</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/sonjas-homegrown-lilikoi-mousse-pie/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Instead of going straight to the recipe, this pie has a bit of a story. First of all, lilikoi are passion fruit, also called maracuyá or granadilla in their native South America. The Hawaiian name comes from the valley where they first went wild on Oahu. They have since invaded all islands and several varieties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Seed of Kanaloa</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/second-seed-of-kanaloa/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/second-seed-of-kanaloa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 00:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/second-seed-of-kanaloa/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the private NTBG tour with the Sierra Club yesterday, we stopped near the nursery where they propagate native Hawaiian plants. While the gardens contain plants from all over the world, the recent focus of their work has been to grow, study, and save the plants that are endemic to Hawaii, which means those found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pineapple Flowers</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pineapple-flowers/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pineapple-flowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Mar 2006 17:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pineapple-flowers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen pineapple flowers before? To satisfy your horticultural curiosity:




Most people know that pineapples grow in Hawaii, it used to be a big industry on Kauai with fields and large canneries in both Kapaa and Lawai. I have read that pineapple flowers are the reason that there are no hummingbirds in Hawaii. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kuilau Ridge Trail</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Hiking</category>
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We went hiking this past Sunday on the Kuilau Ridge trail, perhaps the most underrated trail on Kauai. Big hikers rarely go there because it's an easy out-and-back trail, less than two miles each way, with 600 feet of elevation gain in all. It starts at the Arboratum at the end of Highway 580 in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonderful World of Bromeliads</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-wonderful-world-of-bromeliads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-wonderful-world-of-bromeliads/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bromeliads are a family of non-native plants that grow very well in Hawaiian gardens and don't spread out into nature. They are very colorful, their leaves come in many patterns, and they bloom in many different ways. The pineapple is a bromeliad. They seem to bloom at the end of summer, after the first autumn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees of Kokee</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/trees-of-kokee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/trees-of-kokee/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One more post about last Saturday's trip. Of course we saw trees up in Kokee, the forest with many native trees is one of the main attractions there. However, we ran across two interesting non-native trees.

In the early 1900's wild cattle roamed the uplands and destroyed much of the native forest, causing erosion. The lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poinciana Saga</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-poinciana-saga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Homeowner</category>
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-poinciana-saga/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Wednesday was a very sad day because we had to cut down our beautiful Royal Poinciana tree. I didn't write about it before, but this is how it was blooming all through June and July:

 

 

After the flowers, the leaves started filling in with a beautiful emerald green color. But then, on August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papaya Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/papaya-sunrise-2/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/papaya-sunrise-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/papaya-sunrise-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This must be the sunrise color that sunrise papayas are named for. Click on the photo to see the larger panorama.

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		<title>Tree Fern</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/tree-fern/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/tree-fern/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Flora</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/tree-fern/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the rainforests of Kauai are often called jungles, I don't know if they qualify in a scientific sense because they tend to lack biodiversity. Being as isolated as the island is, there are relatively few species here, both plants and especially animals. However, to the lay person, there are plenty of unknown and unusual [...]]]></description>
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