It is a few degrees cooler than in Waikiki, probably due the lack of massive heat retaining buildings everywhere.
We had a coffee and bit of breakfast and started to scour through various websites and tourist weekly magazines looking for what might be of interest today.
We were in luck. Today there was a Chili Cook-off at the Ulupalakua Ranch.
The way one travels between two points in these volcanic islands is funny.
See below.
Yes, that is the shortest way.
The pictures below all about the trip to and the chili contest at
Ulupalakua Ranch
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The CASI Chili Contest is run by an organisation that provides scholarships for young people that want to get into animal husbandry.
It is held at the Ulupalakua Ranch in one of their public areas built around the pavilion below.
The deal is that you pay $5 for a tasting kit which gives you 5 cups, some serviettes and a voting stick.
You have 5 of the 12 contestants put their produce into a cup and then when you have chosen the winner you give them the green ice cream stick.
The crew with the most sticks wins Peoples Choice.
By the by, all the contestants get exactly the same produce to make their chili beans for the contest.
There are judges that choose the overall winner, which is a prize that gets them to the Worlds Championships in Texas in November.
The band were 3/26th's of the Haiku Hillbilly Big Band.
The other 26 are expected to be released from detention soon.
Large blunts await their release and will be lit in celebration.
For a country music band they were quite good.
The first stand we tasted and it was very very good.
Three wannabe's. Plain, ordinary offerings with pineapple in it. Yuck.
I thought "Mmmmm, beer!"
NO. No beer, in a bottle or cup or glass, to drink.
NO. No beer, in a bottle or cup or glass, to drink.
They put two types of beer in their chili instead.
Really?
Alcohol laws here are odd and almost border on being a wowser state.
...... but you can get a gun really easily
....... mmm, not bad but where's my beer?
Can I get a gun, pilgrim?
This couple won "Peoples Choice" and had our vote to help them get it.
We bought a 6 pack of cold beer at the local grocery store
BUT could not drink it on the premises or anywhere else around the ranch, including out of the back of our car.
We jumped in the car and drank our beer.
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A local effort on a 1967 corvette, spotted in the car park.
It redefines ratrod
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Greg, at the smokers shame corner of the apartment block
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All the shots below are at the beach by the apartment at a little before 7pm
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Tiz, mai tai'ing away
A view from the balcony of Cool Cat Cafe
A local wheat beer. Yum
The order is served
My La Bamba. A burger with lots of chili beans 'n' cheese
Greg's "The Duke" burger. Lots of smokey bacon in this burger, pilgrim
Tiz's Blue Cheese Burger
A bowl, the size of a jacuzzi, of chili and cheese fries
Job done, by me!
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The photo above shows how much Tiz could not eat from her serving.
Below is an unprompted, and not to be missed,
look on her face as she realises that she simply cannot finish it.
I cannot remember laughing so much in a long time.
Then I ate it, but not the pineapple.
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A coffee house in the main drag of Lahaina
One of the t-shirts displayed in the shop above.
They missed "Tastes like ...."
Pineapple!? Blasphemy! Surprised there wasn't deaths.
ReplyDeleteI weep for that corvette