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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>Historical Moloaa Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Hiking</category>
	<category>Activism</category>
	<category>History</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaiians historically had footpaths for getting about on land. On Maui and the Big Island, some of those paths that traverse ancient lava flows have been preserved, but on Kauai, vegetation and erosion have erased all the paths that fell out of use. So, several years ago, I was excited to hear that one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nounou Waterfalls</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/nounou-waterfalls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weather</category>
	<category>Waterfalls</category>
	<category>History</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The waterfalls on Nounou mountain, the Sleeping Giant, are so ephemeral because there is so little area on the upper slopes to catch and funnel the rain. It takes a lot of rain and a quick break in the clouds to see them. We had another four inches of rain last night, there were a [...]]]></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>
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		<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>Pure Speculation</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation-2/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Hiking</category>
	<category>Peaks</category>
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/pure-speculation-2/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Kuilau Ridge hike last Sunday, I caught a few glimpses of Mt Waialeale through the clouds. You often hear about how the Hawaiians used to climb up from Wailua once a year to the heiau atop Mt Waialeale, and I realized I was now looking at the possible routes.

Conventional wisdom says they climbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geckos &#038; Other Guests</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/geckos-other-guests/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/geckos-other-guests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>History</category>
	<category>Kauai Style</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/geckos-other-guests/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Gabriela Taylor just published her first book about Kaua'i, subtitled Tales of a Kaua'i Bed &#038; Breakfast. After 30-some years on Kaua'i, she says she's finally starting to feel and be treated like a local.  And she has lots of great stories going all the way back to the Hippie camps in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real, Old Koloa Town</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-real-old-koloa-town/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-real-old-koloa-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Development</category>
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-real-old-koloa-town/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the way back from Poipu, we always tend to stop at the Lappert's Ice Cream shop in Koloa Town. They are located in "Old Koloa Town," a row of old wooden buildings on the main street that were once local businesses and are now quaint tourist shops. While I do recommend them as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Was Invented in Hawaii</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-internet-was-invented-in-hawaii/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-internet-was-invented-in-hawaii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/the-internet-was-invented-in-hawaii/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually don't talk about computers, but I can't pass up this little tidbit of computational history.

To be more accurate, the ALOHA protocol for packet switching was invented at the University of Hawaii and successfully applied in the ALOHAnet, a precursor to Ethernet on which the Internet runs. It's actually a simple packet protocol with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees of Kokee</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/trees-of-kokee/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/trees-of-kokee/#comments</comments>
		<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>Eo e Emalani i Alaka&#8217;i</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/eo-e-emalani-i-alakai/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/eo-e-emalani-i-alakai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>History</category>
	<category>Kauai Style</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep mentioning that we went to Kokee last Saturday, I just haven't gotten around to writing about it until now. We went to see the annual Eo e Emalani i Alaka'i festival, commemorating Queen Emma's trip to the Alaka'i swamp. That doesn't sound like something to celebrate, but here's the story:

In early 1871, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discoverer&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/discoverers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://great-hikes.com/blog/discoverers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Beaches</category>
	<category>History</category>
		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/discoverers-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here in Hawaii, the US holiday of Columbus Day (the second Monday of October) is called Discoverer's Day, to commemorate the landfalls of many peoples in Hawaii. After many waves of Polynesian migration, the British Captain James Cook was the first recorded westerner to sight the islands and land here (the actual date was January [...]]]></description>
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