Beautiful weather this morning in our little section of the island. Almost perfect, as you can see!
Christmas Eve morning in Kahala
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Dawn on the Winter Solstice
Viewed from Waialae Beach Park, just down the street a short distance from our house.
It was the first morning in a week without rain or the threat of rain.
And it made for quite a sunrise!
Marathon Morning
Today is the Honolulu Marathon, and the 40,000 runners stream past our house beginning with the elite group around 7 a.m., and continuing through the day. Our street isn’t open to cars until sometime late in the morning, when the remaining runners will now walking, and pass by along with costumed runners, runners on stilts, etc.
Before we left, I had a plan. I moved one of my little cat cams so that it looks out the kitchen window. My idea was to take advantage of the time difference and be ready to watch the elite runners go by somewhere around 7 a.m. Hawaii time. It was a good plan, but I bombed out on the execution phase. We finished breakfast just in time to watch the elite group, but I forgot!
And by 8:45 or so Hawaii time, when I got around to looking, there was already a mix of entrants now walking toward the finish line, while others ran past them.
Our house is located toward the end of the Marathon’s mile 23, with just over three miles to go to the finish.
So it goes. I’m attaching a photo that shows I would have had a good view of the elite group had I not spaced it out. And it seems one of the calicos has taken up a position so that she can observe the action.
A Saturday morning in Kahala
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.
