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dark green tree. And Surinam cherries (coated with aphids) and plumerias. A ride to see our lot in Kealia very much pleased by the location and the grand setting of ocean, mountains, river. We ate mangoes all day, into the night. I discovered a whole patch of lilikoi vines behind the house when I hacked a path thru the brush. Yellow passionfruit on the ground! I picked mangoes from the large tree in the yard - and poinciana flowers and plumeria for our bedroom. A dip in the lagoon - today the sky clouded over with thick grey clouds, that colored the sea a Homer-like green. Hot, humid.

Wed. July 14. Mangoes for breakfast - & joong  from Vancouver for lunch. Borrowed Pris' Torino & drove to Anahola for a dip - how balmy & nice a beach. Nothing there has changed - in 11 years the same mood of quiet & calm. Home, picked more mangoes. At the P.O. when I told someone there I'd been gone for 30 years, I feel for an instant like someone who had admitted to a monstrous crime.

Thurs July 15. The days are running into each other. Gathered more lilikors under the thick canopy of vines behind the house. mangoes, loonp-agan  all day. In the afternoon, drove Pris' car to Amim Beach - there to find thick gnarled Kamam trees with roots exposed by the sea - went in for a dip- G got stung by a sea-bee. Picked a few guavas in Amim Road.