Anahola Days

I have been staying in a beautiful house right on the beach in Anahola and quickly learned to love the luxury of walking out the back door and into the ocean. The photo at right is the morning view out the back door.

Life here quickly sets a rhythm of early rising, and a wonderful pattern soon develops.

• awake before sunrise
• breakfast of fruit, yogurt, Anahola Granola
• constitutional (the photo below is from my morning walk)
• dip in the ocean (once in the morning, one late afternoon)

The walk I like is about two miles - up the road and then back in a very upscale neighborhood of ocean view properties, each residence set on several acres of grassland. Most of the walk is along a grassy strip between the road and fences so can be done barefoot, with ocean views on one side, mountain views on the other.

The beach is a long sandy stretch fairly well protected by some reef and rocky points to either side. Facing east they say that on a clear day you can see Oahu. As is common here the water is quite shallow and you can stand up in many places well off shore but much of bottom is rocky with some coral. There is a good sandy spot for entering the water in the crook of the bay as it bends out the point to the north that I used to go in usually, and another good point of entry in the middle each the mouth of a river. The water is a little murky due to nearby rivers and movement of the water but there are quite a few small fish to be seen in the shallows around the rock and coral. Surprisingly, I rarely saw anyone out there, at most one or two people strolling along the beach.