Jurassic Trees
Feb 27, 2025
Although I live in a major city, I grew up in a very rural are and I love the beauty of nature. I rarely pass up a chance to see a botanical garden. Today we were headed to see Kauai’s botanical garden.
On our way, we stopped at the Paradise Café where they have wonderful Malasadas. At times island traffic can move at a snail’s pace. I always give extra time and when I find myself traffic that isn’t moving, I remind myself that there are worst places to be sitting in traffic. We hung out at Spouting Horn before heading over to our tour.
I had booked the best of both worlds which meant we were going to see two gardens – the Allerton Garden and McBryde Garden. To be honest, I didn’t do any research. I knew that I wanted to see the botanical gardens and knew that the Allerton Garden had been used in Jurassic Park as well as in many other movies.
As we entered the gardens, the guide talked about how that most of the plants that we see today are not native. It started with the Polynesians who brought plants and seeds. Captain Cook introduced European plants. I found myself wondering, what did Hawaii look like 100 years ago and what did it look like 150 years ago.
As we progressed into the Allerton Garden, I became more intrigued, Allerton was obviously extremely wealthy when he purchased the land in 1938. He was an art collector and he and his lover set up garden rooms where they hosted lavish parties. I found myself trying to picture what those parties would have looked like. Was there electricity or was it all done by fire? I kept thinking there is a movie here, but when we got back to the hotel and I started googling and was surprised at the lack of information.
As we walked through the garden, our guide pointed out where Johnny Depp was tied up to a tree and where, in Jurassic Park, they realized nature had found a way and dinosaurs were breeding. I really got a kick out of that part of the tour.
The tour guide asked if they wanted to have a picture in that exact spot and where they found the eggshells and then had them pose, he then said “Look Up! Act like you are frightened” and when they did, he pulled a puppet dinosaur out of his pocket to make the picture look like they were being attacked by dragons. I laughed when the people looked at their cameras and saw the picture of the dinosaur attacking them.
Overall, a great tour!
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