Neighbors

The closest neighbor to Kokohead is Hawaiʻi Kai, which is a largely residential area. No business or industrial parks in the area. Most people are forced to go to Honolulu every work day. Plenty good people though. Hawaiʻi Kai is the largest of several communities at the eastern end of the island.

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them

maybe what makes life meaningful.”

The area was largely developed by Henry J. Kaiser around the ancient Maunalua fishpond and wetlands area  The Hawaiʻi Kai or Koko Marina was dredged from Kuapā Pond starting around 1959. Dredging transformed the shallow coastal inlet and wetlands into a marine embayment. Something like this is being  planned for the Waianae Coast.

In 1961, Kaiser-Aetna entered into a lease agreement with the land owner, the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, to develop the 521 acre fishpond into residential tracts with a marina and channels separated by fingers of land and islands upon which house lots and commercial properties would be laid out and developed.

"I'll Remember You" by Don Ho

Nearly all of the low-lying lands surrounding the marina have since been developed, and neighborhoods now extend back into the several valleys and up the separating ridges. Much of the commercial action has overflowed to Niu Valley and Kokohead. The terrific dance blogs, That's Dancing and The Dance Connection, are run by Frank and Lani Sierra. Fortunately, in the area, they are all friends and neighbors.

Pub's Side Note: photos are valuable in the inverse proportion to their availability. How you figure? One nice photo of the dance gang in one of our blogs, compared to the same photo in Facebook who is due to get 350 million today?