From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Kahala is a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. Kahala contains a large concentration of luxury real estate and beachfront properties. It consists of approximately 1,200 homes.

Kahala is also home to the Kahala Hotel & Resort, formerly known as the Kahala Mandarin Oriental, and prior to the Kahala Hilton. Also located along the borders are Kahala Mall, and Diamond Head crater. It is the namesake of Kahala aloha shirts.

Kahala is a flat area of Honolulu, within a 5 – 15 minutes drive of Waikiki and downtown.

It’s also where we have been living for the past decade in the home where I grew up, although we remodeled it extensively after my parents’ died.

When they bought a quarter-acre lot of leased land in Kahala with a new 940 square foot, 3-bedroom, 1-bath home, Kahala was far from a luxury destination. At that time, farms filled the area behind their house, although they began being replaced by houses within a decade. There were pig farms as well, and a chicken ranch just up the street on the corner of Kealaolu and Farmers Road. Kealaolu was the last road within Honolulu’s city limits.

The area has changed a lot, as the Wikipedia entry makes clear.

In any case, I thought I would share glimpses of our early morning walk at dawn.