That silly theme song from the old sitcom, The Jeffersons, keeps recycling in the back of my mind.
We’ve also moved to the east side, of the island, that is. Although we had been living in Kaaawa going on 30 years, this is the neighborhood I grew up in. It’s changed a lot, so perhaps I should say this is the successor to the neighborhood where I grew up.
The cats haven’t yet settled in, and neither have we. Last night, on a whim, we shared a glass of wine with good friends in Kaaawa via Skype. That was a nice experiment. With a few tweaks, it could become a regular event, long distance wine o’clock.
But we’re making strides in getting accustomed to the east side. And we’re seeing some advantages, even on our early morning walk.
This morning, for the second day in a row, we followed the beach past the Waialae Beach Park, past the Waialae Country Club, past the Kahala Beach Apartments, past the Kahala Hotel & Resort, and then along the beachfront until we reached Wailupe Circle, where it started to get rocky and our allotted time was running out.
It drizzled much of the way and we did get a little wet, but managed to avoid any downpours.
Here are two views.
I like the top photo, which shows some of the threatening clouds moving in from the south.
And in the bottom photo, we were approaching the shoreline at Wailupe Circle. Note the lone fisherman to the right.
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Today we filled a medium bag with trash picked up along the beach. We should have carried a second bag, because we were forced to leave a lot of trash behind.
And this weekend I’ll try out a couple of new header photos for this blog, reflecting our current location.
In news of our immediate neighborhood, former UH football coach, Dick Tomey, has put his home at 944 Kealaolu Avenue on the market. He’s asking $3,195,000. The listing realtor is former UH basketball great, Artie Wilson.
If you’re curious, there’s an open house scheduled tomorrow, Sunday, September 13, 2015, from 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
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Love the top photo. Hope you find some “wine” friends near by, but staying in touch via Skype is great. Having lived in the same house in Kailua for 53 years, I feel as if I am living in a successor town. Neighborhood is still okay, but not Kailua town. My cat doesn’t have to relate, however.
The reason the public stops at Wailupe Circle is because the Wailupe Circle Association has locked all three ocean right of ways with gates to close ocean access from each direction.
Use to be in the deeds-Caucasians only and everybody else had to live Wailupe Valley. Today if you have enough money, you can still keep the public from accessing the ocean.
Much of the Wailupe Beach shoreline you mentioned as “rocky” is littered concrete blocks and sharp metal debris left by the Navy and never cleaned up from when they had their station there.
Here is a link to the old shoreline how it used to look. Historic photos show the concrete blocks that now block the shoreline.
Old Wailupe Naval Station
http://www.virhistory.com/navy/commsta/wailupe/hawaii-1920-04.JPG
Old Wailupe Shoreline
http://www.virhistory.com/navy/commsta/wailupe/1921_wailupe_t.jpg
That is a wonderful photo of the storm clouds moving in from the South!
Interesting comments from Resident about the lack of ocean access from Wailupe Circle. Do the Wailupe Circle people have the right to do that?
I just beamed up an aerial view of Wailupe Circle, using Google Earth. There really is no beach along that shoreline, as far as I can tell. Most of the homes have a sort of walkway over the shallow, rocky water nearest the shore to connect their lots to the open water. I wonder what their property boundaries are. Are they all encroaching on public land?
My understanding is that preventing public access is NOT allowed.
But like many things in Hawaii, enforcing rules that came after landowners became used to making *their* area exclusive is incredibly hard.
There’s been some interest by the Aina Haina Neighborhood Board to follow the issue (its DLNR that’s supposed to do the enforcement and there is push back from landowners) but no lasting resolution to protect public access yet.
Hmm. Maybe I’m getting two areas confused.
And to correct my comment above, it’s the Kuliouou-Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board No. 02 that has been following issues related to boulders placed by landowners? Something like that from a quick search for “Paiko” in some of the minutes.
http://www.honolulu.gov/cms-nco-menu/site-nco-sitearticles/19982-kuliouou-kalani-iki-nb-december-minutes.html
http://www.honolulu.gov/cms-nco-menu/site-nco-sitearticles/20147-kuliouou-kalani-iki-nb-february-minutes.html
I know Kahala is a fancier address but it had a more Hawaiian ring coming from Kaaawa. The walk was more dramatic. That said in a former married life I lived on a fancy named street in that area and rather enjoyed my Saturday morning walks on Kahala beach. There usually was no one there and was a pleasant respite from the workaday world.