Gill, Doug las E . 
19<& 154 
Victorian profile. We couldn't find any Koloa (Hawaiian duck) so we 
drove lack to Lihoe and back towards the airport. There was the large 
muddy man made lake in hhe middle of the cane field so wa decided to 
make a last ditch effort here. Driving around the bank on a dirt 
construction road. Suddenly out of the grass on the other side there 
Kolou flew out. Then two more, and then four more swam out, a total 
of nine'. What luck l As we drove on around a molting (?) Golden Plover 
flew by and then aRuddy Turnstone. We congratulated each other on our 
luck. We parked in a distant corner of the parking lot of the airport 
and spent the next hour cleaning it out. We were still 
covered with mud from Alahai Swamp and were Just filthy. We put on "clean 
clothes which covered up some of the filth. We turned in the car and 
our overly helpful attendant tried to wait mi us hand and foot. 
We waited for about an hour before our plane left. A religious group 
was giving a big send off of two good looking young people. I ate a Jar 
of peanut butter far my breakfast. Our Aloha Plane finally took off and 
face and figure, neatly dressed, and college aged) sit next to me. We 
discussed our trip and the religions of Hawaii and enjoyed the 
c on ver station. She couldn’t get over how brave we were to entire the 
mountains without knowing where we were going. We landed in Honolulu 
and were met by Dayle Husted. After picking up some dry ice we drove 
back to the Hotel and showered in Dayle* s room. We dressed up (for us) 
and repacked our stuff. Then drove back out to the airport. We passed 
customs easily but found we were 100 pounds overweight. He only charged 
us for 20 and off we went. W e left Honolulu at 4:50 p.m. BET and arrived 
