Rice paddy

While waiting for our opportunity to board a boat and go see the USS Arizona, Jeff and I had lunch. We went to a place in the Pearl Harbor area where we could see rice being grown and harvested out in a field. It totally amused me that the rice paddy was right next to a mall. Jeff was showing me that there was a very thin geographical separation between the government subsidized housing and rice paddies and the very expensive homes on the other side of the mall. 

I was very interested in the rice. Land is finite here. The volcanoes made Oahu only so big, so devoting square footage to rice farming really makes me think these folks place a premium on rice as a staple. 

Jeff is busy on the phone at the moment, and we're almost up for our boat ride to the Arizona. In the meantime, enjoy a view of a Hawaiian rice paddy.