You can't go to Hawaii and not see the pineapples.

Dole used to be the big pineapple producer in Hawaii, employing large numbers of the locals.  These days, though, Dole produces pineapples in the Philippines to export to the mainland USA, leaving only a fraction of its Hawaiian fields in production to serve the islands.  At least that's what Doug told Bill.  Or what somebody told Bill.  I think.

But Dole still produces a great soft-serve pineapple frozen treat.  Yummy, right Bonnie?

Look!  It's a pineapple plant.  Those leaves are like sharp, like little green saws.

Man, what would it have been like to have to wade through fields of those little band saws to cut pineapple?

The garden in back of the Dole welcome center features many varieties of pineapple plants. 

I wonder which kind it that little red pineapple is?

Hey, there's even a goldfish pond.

This is the color you turn if you eat too much little red pineapple.

Nice garden.

Hey, more little red pineapple.

Oooooh, a bigger one...

Jim Dole was the man who started all this.  He figured everybody back on the mainland would love cans of pineapple cut into uniform doughnut-shaped rings just perfect for gooey upside-down cakes, and he was right!

Now THAT'S a field of pineapple.

How far could you walk into all that wearing shorts before you'd bleed to death?