If we say that Beachside and Lanikai are the bookends to Kailua Beach Park, then the Kawailoa neighborhood is the book. Just you and what’s possibly the best vantage point in Kailua. Stretch out on the beaches here and you literally just might have it to yourself. Those farthest back, beside Mokapu Rd will need about 15 minutes to make it down to the oceanside, but, again, that’s the outer reaches. The gulf between Kaimalino and Beachside, combined with the vibrant green of the untouched lands above, cushions and insulates you from the tourist throngs and anything else that can intrude on a beautiful Windward day. It’s almost peninsula-like extension beyond the rest of the coastline gives many of the homes along the Channel wide open views that way that even Beachside homes cannot match. Not the best place for wading, but it makes up in other ways. The beach here is still sandy, but smaller than the stretches below the channel barrier, and sometimes it’s even rocky. These very large and luxurious homes in Kaimalino take up the northernmost part of this coast, but are separated from the rest by the Channel. It collects the home above the Oneawa Channel as it curves to join the ocean and makai of Mokapu Rd. The one settled piece of land between Beachside and Kaneohe MCBH is the neighborhood of Kaimalino. It’s like a personal driveway that’s a private ramp onto one of the best collections of sand on Earth. While everyone is down there, your beach is sparsely populated, free of vendors and no traffic to deal with – and if you have to walk 5 minutes to get there, it’s because you forgot something and had to go back to get it.Įach one of the brief, makai-bound avenues that make up Beachside are their own quiet, little neighborhood. The same celebrated sands and peerless views of Kailua Beach Park lie off the backdoors of these homes, with one distinct advantage. That means the conspicuous Beverly Hills style mansions are a No-No. All coexist peacefully and picturesquely due to a general unspoken agreement that structures fit in with the Kailua and Windward lifestyle. Along with the residences on that side of N Kalaheo, the neighborhood consists of a series of short streets that run perpendicular to that main road, each ending close to, or at the coastline.įrom classic Plantation homes to vintage beach cottages to large luxury homes, you’ll find them all on these individual avenues. It can justly boast that its residents have a mere block or two between them and the cooling feel of the water lapping at their feet.īeachside homes are easy to map out, since they take up everything makai of N Kalaheo Ave, ending where it crosses the Oneawa Channel. As they say, ‘This is the Life.’īeachside is the other bookend to Kailua Beach Park, taking up the roughly northern side of that area, almost the entire way to Kaneohe Marine Corps Base. When the sun sets, the people of Lanikai watch the Pacific and listen to its lullaby, with little noise besides an occasional passing car or the sound of contented friends making their way back from the beach. With the hillside slant to the place, houses that sit more mauka can still have views of the water and the Mokes to drink in from their private retreats. The mostly luxury homes are on quiet streets, outside of the beach traffic, and the lifestyle focuses on one thing – the ocean. Within these streets you have something of an old-fashioned, yet exclusive, beach resort feel. You buy a house in Lanikai because it is its own special beachside community, separate from the rest of Kailua, yet fully part of it. Some can just step off their backyard or lanai. From anywhere in the neighborhood, you can stroll to the sands within 10 to 15 minutes at most. For Lanikai home owners, this attraction is part of their experience daily. Whatever it is, Oahu residents feel it unmistakably. Yes, the sand is luxuriously soft, the water crystal clear and the Mokulua Islands that sit off this coastline add something so visually satisfying, you wonder if the Hawaii Tourism Authority had them added to crown the scene. It’s difficult to say exactly what it is about Lanikai Beach that inspires such devotion. Locals can’t stay away and they always know the best places to go. So much so that it has had a very notorious issue with illegal parking and traffic on holidays and most weekends. There’s obviously something VERY attractive about Lanikai.
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