Our journey to Hilo was really long, but two days and two airport hotels later we finally arrived. From the cold and dry winds in iceland to the hot breeze and sunny Hawaii. We got a small cosy hut in the forest that is our bedroom and studio. Our hut is basically outdoors with only half walls, and you can roll the walls to the side so you are just in the forest. We wake up around sunrise every morning with the chickens screaming all around our hut.

The things we hear in the night time are tiny black and white tree frogs that jump from tree to tree and sometimes they come into our hut and sing for us but actually they are quite loud. So loud that if they are next to your ear they can make you deaf. Other things we hear in the night time is the rustling of leaves and ripened fruits falling from trees. There are a lot of bugs here and we are getting used to them. Its so different from no-bug-iceland. Alex is still freaking out about the spiders that come and make webs in the ceiling in our hut. And they are BIG. We have to take the straw broom and move them out.

We live really healthy here, and are only eating raw food and there is so much abundance here. We can actually pick avocados, lemons, limes, bananas, chocolate, papaya, jackfruits, macadamia nuts, mamay sapote, Rollenia, grapefruits, and more right off the trees and eat them… So we do! It’s so different from nothing-growing-lavarock-iceland. Once Alex was peeing under an avocado tree and avocado fell right beside him – We made guacamole.

– Jónsi