This is one of the little farm roads in Moloa`a where I pick up my veggies from my friend Marie. Yes the road is that tilted and a month ago it was just mowed down to make a new road. Kaua`i really does have red dirt and the color here is quite accurate. Here is a story regarding Red Dirt Shirts.
Ultimate Kauai Souvenir: The Red Dirt Shirt -- If you are looking for an inexpensive, easy-to-pack souvenir of your trip to Kauai or gifts for all the friends and relatives back home, check out the Red Dirt Shirt. Every T-shirt is hand-dyed and unique. The shirts were the result of a bad situation turned into a positive one. The "legend" is that Paradise Sportswear, in Waimea (tel. 808/335-5670; www.dirtshirt.com), lost the roof of their warehouse during Hurricane Iniki in 1992. After the storm passed, employees returned to the building to find all their T-shirts covered with Kauai's red soil. Before throwing out their entire inventory as "too soiled to sell," someone had an idea??sell the shirts as a Kauai "Red Dirt Shirt." The grunge look was just starting to be popular. Unbelievable as it is, people took to these "dirt" shirts. Fast-forward a dozen years and the shirts have numerous outlets on Kauai.
'There's also an interesting story behind how these T-shirts are dyed. Paradise Sportswear is a true community effort. They employ families who, due to family or disability challenges, prefer to work from home. Their employees take ordinary white T-shirts home and dye the shirts in vats with red dirt collected from valleys on Kauai where centuries of erosion have concentrated red iron oxide into the dirt. It's this red iron oxide that is used in the tinting agent, along with some other organic compounds to the dye solution, that ensure that your dirt shirt will keep its red-dirt color.'
That is very rich looking soil. I love roads like this one. The sky is sort of blah, but the rest of this shot is sweet. I see that you have Johnson grass out there too. That stuff is awful. : P
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