{"id":655,"date":"2010-06-29T08:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=655"},"modified":"2010-06-29T08:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T15:15:22","slug":"haleiwa-cottage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2010\/06\/haleiwa-cottage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hale’iwa Cottage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in March <\/strong>we stayed on Oahu’s North Shore, and now I’ve gotten around to painting a little \u00a0“thank you” watercolor for the family who\u00a0graciously allowed us to stay there. The house is an interesting place, and so I thought I’d post it\u00a0here.\u00a0The place is about 3 miles or so north of Hale’iwa, that North Shore\u00a0wide place in the road that’s famous for the shave ice, odd people\u00a0and giant surfing waves. How big are the waves? Well, right down the road a local surfer was sleeping in his beach-side cabin when a rogue wave came in, smacked the place apart and he awoke to find himself behind his home, surfing up the hill on his bed. He’s lucky to\u00a0tell the tale.<\/p>\n

This little cottage, also oh-so-close to the giant waves, had its lower front windows boarded up because of the same problem. Try sleeping soundly\u00a0at night with THAT knowledge running around\u00a0in your head. We were told the place was originally an old WW2 army barracks that was moved here after the war, then remodeled endless times to become a truly old-Hawaii\u00a0experience. This means it’s\u00a0a mixture of everything that’s available yet nothing that’s entirely permanent. Nothing fancy, no granite countertops,\u00a0just a tidy little place\u00a0like the\u00a0summer cabins I stayed in as a kid. There’s a long sand\u00a0beach just down the block where green sea turtles\u00a0haul out to rest, but the ‘beach’ out front is mostly lava rocks and remnants of an ancient coral reef when sea levels were a bit higher.<\/p>\n

For the most part, the entire 808-State (Hawaii area code) isn’t like this anymore. You have to really look for the old Hawaii Nancy and I love – but it’s still here in bits and pieces. The family who\u00a0remains true to this small and simple\u00a0old place on the beach is pretty savy, I think, of realizing\u00a0how to enjoy life.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading this week.
\nLarry Eifert<\/p>\n

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Back in March we stayed on Oahu’s North Shore, and now I’ve gotten around to painting a little \u00a0“thank you” watercolor for the family who\u00a0graciously allowed us to stay there. The house is an interesting place, and so I thought I’d post it\u00a0here.\u00a0The place is about 3 miles or so north of Hale’iwa, that North … Continue reading Hale’iwa Cottage<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[34,53,85,118],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-painting-post","category-uncategorized","tag-easel-paintings","tag-hawaii","tag-palms","tag-watercolor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}