Today is Travel Tip Thursday! OK, I realize this is being posted on Wednesday, but like I said before I have a couple of challenges. One is the time zone. I am six hours behind you bloggers on the East Coast. Ideally I would post on Wednesday evening over here, but tonight Hubs is off and may whisk me off someplace after work… Could happen. Or just complain if I go on the computer…So let’s do some virtual traveling via blogland. Link up your posts with Mr. Linky. It can be an actual vacation or a staycation. A must see or a secret spot near where you live. Grab the badge code over in the sidebar and come along with us. Check out last week’s links too.
My Travel Tip today is the big reveal. Throughout the last year, many commenters have asked where the beach is we go most often. The beach that is always showing up in photos on posts like this or this or this.
We discovered our favorite beach when Hubs and I were dating. He would pack up a hibachi and a picnic and take me up to the North Shore, where we would drive around until we found a nice spot. Once we discovered Ke Iki Beach we kept going back. At first we nicknamed it “Perfect Beach,” because every time we went we had a perfect day.
When I graduated with my B.A. from UH, we rented a house on the beach to celebrate and my mom and younger sister came out and we stayed there along with a couple of my friends for a week. A couple years later, my dad rented the beach house a few months after Daughter was born and both my sisters came out and we all stayed there for two weeks.
For the last three years, my girlfriends and I have rented a beach house here every Labor Day for our mom’s weekend off. It’s the best.
Ke Iki Beach is located between Waimea Bay and Pipeline. You could walk to either if you wanted. My beach walks are from Ke Iki to sunset Beach. During the winter the waves are too big and treacherous to go swimming most of the time, but it is beautiful and amazing to witness. During the summer it is usually flat and clear and turquoise. Great for snorkeling.
Renting a beach house or cabin is an alternative for those who want to stay on Oahu but not in Waikiki and not in a hotel. You can buy your groceries and cook or BBQ.
Ke Iki Beach Bungalows is managed by Greg Gerstenberger and his contact information is available on the website. He also manages the beach house two doors down where I stay with my girlfriends on Labor Day weekends.
And here we go…
Ke Iki Beach Bungalows...
Sunset from the beach house balcony
Sunset on the beach
Early morning rainbow
Early morning walk...
Morning walk finds sunning, napping monk seal
View to the right
View to the left
View from the beach house balcony
The beach house life
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30 comments:
Oh my goodness oh my gosh I sooo want to hop on a plane and visit that beach and those bungalows! Thank you so much for sharing this secret slice of heaven with us!
I'm so glad you specified that the seal was napping!
Wow! Makes me want to go to Hawaii more and more!
I put Beloved in a headlock and made him PROMISE to take me to Oahu the next time we go to Hawaii.
I thought that seal was dead at first. I'm glad you clarified!
Gorgeous locale!
Those pictures are beautiful! They are amazing! And the seal! That's is crazy. :)
Beautiful. I'm so enjoying my visit here. I might not leave.
I'm with blueviolet. I thought it was a dead seal and thought, whoa, this virtual walk on the beach just took a quirky turn, but good for napping seals!
Like the others...I don't know but I'm glad you said the seal was napping. :)
There's one that naps at Kailua sometimes but they rope her a big area and people will be tazzered (hehe) if they go past it. For protection of course.
The beach. Ahhh...the beach.
It looks like paradise :-)
My mom's birthday is this week and she demanded that this time next year, my brothers and their kids and us and our kids all go to the beach for a weekend for her gift. I can't wait for the days when the kids are old enough to just play (vs run toward the water and eat sand) and we can just relax the way you guys do on your stays.
Okay, the seal is cool enough.
but the rest?
Heaven!
Wow did the seal live? I should hook up my pictures from my trip I just had. I have not tips though.
WOW! Great pics. So beautiful. I'm so glad you told us the monkey seal is napping because I thought.....EEK!
I didn't think the seal was dead.... he looks very content, I want to hug him.
So very lovely. I've only been to the North Shore once a long time ago. We're talking 34 years ago. It still looks about like what I remember.
I up and running. I hope you have a great day. I guess you are ready for the weekend? Since you started back to school. My Round Robin is tomorrow if you want to stop by....
OK, now you've done it. I've been wanting to go back to Hawaii and now I have the perfect place to stay. Great. ELPH is going to kill me -or you. *off to raid couch cushions to start "next Hawaii" trip fund*
Hey, I'm doing a guest post at the Un-Mom's on Monday that could kinda be a travel tip Thursday. Except that it's on Monday. But it is about Hawaii.
Wow--you truly live in paradise. I'm totally jealous.
Except of the seal. I find these things to be creepy---where are the arms??? It has no ARMS!!! I am okay seeing them in water, but ick, when they are just flopped about, I am totally repulsed. I'm sad that mr-floppy-no-arms ruined the beach pic.
:)
Oh, man. I so want to be there right now.
Love it!! Once when we were in Hawaii we came upon a monk seal. I thought it was dead and got the scare of a lifetime. We were on the Big Island and A) the seal moved and B) there was a naturalist of some sort observing/protecting it and he yelled at me something fierce...
I understand they are rare, though, so it was still quite a thrill :)
Fishing poles and Rainbows! You can't beat that!
I posted my travel tip!!
My listing at #4 is the wrong one! #5 is correct!
A little slice of heaven...and thanks for clarifying that the monk seal was napping - I was worried! :)
i'm really going to have to get it together and have this travel business done a few days ahead instead of staying up until midnight on thursday.
as for ke iki... wish i was there. right now. sigh.
Now really Pseudo- who can compete with that? I keep missing the Thursdays, darn.
That's almost too cruel.....
:)
xo
Wow!! I can not believe you shared this little slice of heaven with us!! Now I just need to pay off a little debt. Then, I am definitely renting one. Thank you for the contact info.
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