The Amy Greenwell Botanical Gardens is south of our condo near Captain Cook, and is a unique ethnobotanical garden which contains only plants that were indigenous or endemic to the Hawaiian Islands prior to the arrival of Captain Cook. Many of these plants are endangered (some indigenous plants unique to Hawaii have already gone extinct due to development activities). These gardens preserve and help re-establish the native flora in the islands. While the blossoms are not as exotic as the tropical garden we visited earlier in the trip, they are just as lovely:
Not only was there lovely flora, be we also encountered a few fauna, including this one about the size of a silver dollar:
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