NEW BEACH LIFE

I guess we moved to Waimanalo because Daddy's office was on the University of Hawaii's campus where he met many of the professors and staff. Through them, he met Dr. Fox, the President of Punahou School who happened to be renting out his beach house in Waimanalo. It was a tiny cottage perched right on the sand. You'd step out of the door and it was just pure white sand...........and we had the this gorgeous untouched white sand beach all to ourselves with views of Rabbit Island that was always frosted in white (from bird poop) It was a bird sanctuary but shaped like a "rabbit"...oh well.

Here we were. My parents were meeting a lot of people that lived in this interesting neighborhood. They partied. They danced. They drank. They laughed and we kids liked to spy on them through the bushes for a lot of giggles.
My mother gave dancing lessons to some of the kids, like the box step. We all made friends there and those same kids, taught me about Li Hing Moi and other local treats.

The beach was isolated as this, in '49, was considered far out in the country. There was no public transportation and a very winding road from the end of the main hwy which ended at Lunalilo Home Rd. After school we had to take a stretch limo taxi with other people that would meet us there and take us home the rest of the way.