> About the chicken thing:
> I've been to Kauai three times now and the first two trips I seem to remember seeing a chicken or two, but this time they were wall to wall. Mostly banties, these chickens are wild ones that have excaped, living off the land and reproducing like crazy. The roosters are really funny. At the beach one day a little red banty rooster was running around challenging any thing with feathers. He tried to pick fights with sea gulls, sparrows, mynahs, and other roosters. The gulls just gave him the "you stupid idiot" look and flew off. The other roosters ran like chickens.
> We had lunch in old Koloa town in one of those open-air restaurants that are so common in Hawaii, and there were chickens wandering around picking up stray French fries off the floor. The waitresses tried chasing them off but they kept coming back. You could hear roosters crowing from daybreak until dark no matter where you were. We saw chickens from the beach to 4000 feet. They outnumbered any other wildlife.
> Howard

I wonder how many of those foul vermin end up on the menus. Probably not nearly as many as would if Hawaii were a foreign country somewhere in Asia.

Tra "Why...yes, sir. The chicken's *very* fresh." nio