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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>Beach Cleanup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[

Earth Day (April 22nd) was last Tuesday, and thanks to my daughter, I was actually encouraged to do something. Her preschool had planned to go to a local beach and pick up trash, so I joined them. We're a one-car household, and I didn't have the car, so I did the right thing and bicycled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Octopus Tree</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/octopus-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The octopus tree is one of those non-native species that most people see as typical of a tropical climate like Hawaii. Known as Schefflera and umbrella tree on the mainland, many people recognize it as a typical house plant that grows wild here. But most mainlanders have never seen it in bloom, and right now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Impressions of Lingle</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/first-impressions-of-lingle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been avoiding a day-by-day, injunction-by-injunction commentary about the superferry, but on Thursday evening, I attended another protest against the ferry and then a "town hall" meeting with state governor Linda Lingle.

I had several reservations about this meeting. First, the meeting announcement in the newspapers revealed that it was really all about the "unified command" [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planet Kauai</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/planet-kauai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly but surely, I'm adding to my list of other blogs about Kauai (see blogroll at right). Today I stumbled upon 'Planet Kauai' and immediately recognized a blogger after my own heart. 





The author, Charley Foster, seems to be a recent transplant from Utah, which means he has had many of the same experiences I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11:45 A.M.</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/1145-am/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid>http://great-hikes.com/blog/1145-am/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of those short and simple posts:

I was just reminded that Kauai's civil defense sirens are tested on the first working day of every month at 11:45 a.m. with a continuous 1-minute tone. The sirens are located along the coasts and in populated areas inland to warn people of tsunamis mostly, but also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costco is Ugly</title>
		<link>http://great-hikes.com/blog/costco-is-ugly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Development</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's always surprising when construction goes so fast that you find familiar places changed nearly overnight. We shop at Kukui Grove Mall at least every other week, so last time I was shocked to find the view of the mountains now blocked by the Costco under construction.




The ugly containers in the foreground belong to Kmart, [...]]]></description>
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