So yesterday I had a bit of an adventure. I went for a walk into the surrounding vegetation near my house and wandered about an hour. I knew there was a great little waterfall that few knew about just a short walk away, and I was going back there. But somehow I got turned around.

I had been walking about two hours, wondering where in the world I was, when I stumbled upon a pineapple tree. These are not uncommon on a Hawaiian island and I decided to take a break there and look around. What I saw was amazing. The tree itself looked like every other tree, but its fruit was red!

At first I thought that I’d lost my mind or had too little water. So I drank some water and waited. Then I looked back up. They were still red. I had to find out more about why. I found one nearby that had fallen off and broke it open. While the skin on the outside was red, the fruit inside was still the same color… ish.

The fruit looked like regular pineapple except there were flecks in it that shimmered. I picked a few out and they continued to shimmer, but I couldn’t figure out what they were. I tried the fruit. It was the best pineapple I’d ever tasted. It was so sweet and seemed to explode with flavor in my mouth. I loved it. I had to take some home with me.

I put the largest pineapple I could find in my daypack and trudged back to my house. It took almost two hours to find the right way to get there, but I didn’t care. I was just excited to have a red pineapple to show off. I immediately called my friends over for lunch and served fruit salad, using the pineapple. Then I told them all about it. We figured we could go into business and sell the pineapples as specialty fruit and we all agreed to start harvesting the pineapples the next morning.

But we never found the tree again. We searched all day and didn’t see even a flash of red fruit. Over the next few weeks, I’m sure I’ll search again, trying to find what I stumbled upon the first time. And who knows – maybe I’ll find blue pineapples, purple mangos, or even a few pigmies while I’m out there!

So the next time you’re in Kauai, look up for the red fruit and Happy April Fools Day.