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A POTTERY PAINTING AND AQUAPONICS OUTING

It's almost 16 miles from 15 Craigside Place to the Waiahole Nursery and Garden Center.  It's a beautiful drive that takes around half an hour, and there are five ways to get there, three using tunnels through the Koolaus.  Our 15 Craigside outing took the middle route, Likelike Highway. The view from the Center out into Kaneohe Bay is  Chinaman's Hat .  It's of course an insult to use the term Chinaman, but for some reason that name is tolerated in Hawaii.  There is a Hawaiian name, Mikoli'i, but no one uses that.  The story of this island has nothing to do with a Chinese man or his hat, but a giant lizard and Pele's sister Hi'iaka.  During low tide you can actually walk there from Kualoa Park, a distance of a little more than a quarter mile.  The peak is at 210 feet high.  The highlight of the tour was being instructed by a 7-year old teacher on how to paint pottery and transplant two Hawaiian plants into it.  She was really good, but I couldn't unders