Botanical Gardens of Oahu

According to my information the Walmea Valley Audubon Center and Foster Botanical Garden are the two best gardens to tour. The Walmea Valley is on the North Shore and is very large (1875 acres) if you take a bathing suit you can swim in the water fall....audubon.org/local/sanctuary/Brochures/Waimea...Foster is small but apparently has some really cool trees including one that is 10 feet in diameter...my computer connection is to slow to try it but you can take a virtual tour of Foster at...vthawaii.com/OAHU/foster/foster2 ...Foster is in Honolulu


Words in Hawaiian...the Hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters they are A,E,I,O,U,H,K,L,M,N,P and W...the consonants are pronounced just as they are in English, with the exception of W it is often pronounced as a V if it is in the middle of a word and comes after an E or I...vowels are pronounced as follows A as in Ah(stressed) or in above(not stressed), E as in say(s) or as in dent(ns), I as in bee, O as in nose and U as in stew...our word for today is: Mahalo (mah-hah-low) it means - Thank You.