Haleiwa Beach House

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Sometimes I feel like I live in a Corona commercial. We spent last weekend at a beach house in Haleiwa, a town on Oahu’s North Shore, to celebrate Justin’s birthday. It wasn’t a house by the beach, it was a house on the beach and being there was beyond relaxing. For anyone looking to get away from town for the weekend, you can’t go wrong renting a house on this strand.

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I love the front of this house because you can’t even see it. It’s painted gray and covered in trees.

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Here’s the tree lined walkway to the front door, which is on the side.

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I’d say the theme of the weekend was gourmet food. Here we have home-make mac salad, angel hair pasta, 4 types of poke, turkey wraps, bacon wrapped shrimp and asparagus skewers, Erin’s  brontosaurous beef ribs and smoked chicken from Ed.

I was caught off guard actually at how good the food was. And I must admit, I felt a little inadequate having showed up with only a pineapple and apple strudel (albeit excellent apple strudel).

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With the feast prepared and ready to eat, we need the birthday boy make the first plate.

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After the huge meal was done, it was time to retreat in to the backyard.

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Ed did some night swimming in the shore break.

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Some gazed at the stars. You see them really well on the North Shore.

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But for the most part, we hung out the deck and in the hot tub time machine.

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Mellow.

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And now, the next day.  A few people work up early  to catch the morning NFL games. I woke up early on account of the loud waves crashing against our beach. I had only gotten 3 hours of sleep but when I opened my eyes and saw what it looked like outside, I had to run and grab my camera.

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The beach was just outside the backyard gate.

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The air was crisp and the sky was pink.

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I looked to the right and saw this view.

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To the left I saw this.

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The beach was very active in the morning. Some were fishing.

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The water directly in front of the house was full of stand up paddlers.

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And of course the surfers. Longboarders …

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… and shortboarders.

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We watched football for a while after breakfast.

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And then went outside to enjoy the day. A few of us went made the five minute walk down the beach to Chun’s to catch some waves. The swell had decent head to a few feet overhead size, but it was a bit mushy.

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When the sun set the views became pretty awesome. (See the Chun’s Reef at Dusk post.)

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The second dinner featured more gourmet home cooking including Ed’s killer Jamaican jerk pork with red beans and rice.

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And more bacon wrapped shrimp and asparagus skewers.

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Some folks stayed over another night but I had to hit the road.

See also:

• Location: The house was just a quarter mile up the road from Chun’s Reef.
• Find a beach house on craigslist.