Kailua

Oahu, September 2007

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In Kailua, we rented a little studio attached to a private residence, just 5 houses away from the beach. Kailua is world away from Waikiki, in fact, they don't even have any hotels or motels, justs B&B's and private rooms and houses for rent. We located the house off of the VRBO website and I have to say, it is an invaluable resource. The owners of the house were super nice (thanks Rob and Cathy!) and we loved their dog Blue. The room was cozy and just what we needed to spend a comfortable week.

45 seconds from the house leads to the middle of Kailua Beach. On this trip we took the house dog, Blue, to the surf with us. He never grew tired of chasing the ball but often would not bring it back.

A view from the southern end the 2.5 mile long beach in Kailua.

Our studio didn't have much of a kitchen, as you will see in the next photo, but we did have access to the backyard and its grill. Here Em is cooking opah (moonfish) that we bought from some locals during a drive up the windward coast.

Em shows off our kitchen cabinet. With the grill outside and the rice cooker we didn't miss a stove. The stairs at the left lead up to a sleeping loft although we slept on the bed down at this level. It sure seemed small, the 'full' size bed, after coming from a 'king' size at the Hilton.

Our fourth car on this trip, a Toyota Yaris. I've written about the first three elsewhere.

It seems like we went to shopping at Don Quijote's every day we where in Kailua. In fact, sometimes we went twice a day. It's a Japanese grocery store plus everything else.

Not just in Kailua, but all over the island we encountered these cool bike racks.

This picture, taken by someone else, shows the only place I wanted to go but didn't, the Sunken Island in Kane'ohe Bay, just north of Kailua. It's about a mile offshore so a kayak is required but once you get there the water is only a foot or so deep. The days we planned to go it was very windy so we aborted. If asking locals about this place, call it the 'sandbar', not the 'sunken island'.

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