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!
Where was it? Here’s the answer.
Yesterdays “where is it?” challenge got a lot of interest, and many guesses. Thanks to everyone who gave it a try.
No, I didn’t know where the photo was taken. I found it in a small photo album with pictures from my mother’s childhood, so I know it was in Hawaii.
But Chuck, along with Jim Bickerton, appear to have had the right answer–Makaha Beach.
Chuck initially thought it might be from Maili Beach Park, but the reef and the mountain close to the ocean led him to also conclude it was Makaha.
Jim says he has seen that view many times while surfing at Makaha, with Mauna Lahilahi to the right, and Maili Point in the background.
Here are two images found online that appear to confirm the location. These are both at Makaha Beach Park. I hope this small noncommercial use will not raise copyright issues.
Panorama of the surf spot at Makaha.
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.
