Christa Goodwin – HomeyHawaii

Recurring Events on Oahu

June 9, 2018 Christa Goodwin Comments 1 comment

Look through our list of Recurring Events on Oahu and select those you’d like to attend during your visit to the island. From street to museum settings, organised by local businesses, entrepreneurs and volunteers, those Oahu events will entertain and nourish the body and soul. Annual Made in Hawaii Festival Each August on Statehood Day Weekend, Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall and Arena, Honolulu The annual Made in Hawaii Festival features nearly 400 exhibitors who showcase food products, books, gifts, apparel and…

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View from high cliffs down to Kalaupapa peninsula in Molokai, Hawaii

Molokai Day 3 – Kalaupapa Peninsula and Pala’au State Park

June 8, 2018 Christa Goodwin Comments 1 comment

For the third and final day of our Family of Five’s Journey to Molokai, we planned an unhurried trip to what is in many ways the heart and soul of the Friendly Isle. A visit to Molokai is not complete without visiting the Kalaupapa Peninsula or at least spending time at the lookout to contemplate its history. Our family left the vacation condo at Molokai Shores and drove north on Kalae Highway for about 20 minutes before arriving at Pala’au State…

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An aerial view of Halawa Bay at the east end of Molokai

Molokai Day 2 – Dixie Maru Beach, Papohaku Beach, Halawa Valley

May 25, 2018 Christa Goodwin Comments 2 comments

The second day of our Family of Five’s Journey to Molokai. After a satisfying night of peaceful sleep, we were ready to explore Molokai! The girls wanted to check out the beach along the property edge of Molokai Shores. We soon discovered that this was an unusual spot. Rather than proper sand, this was a mud beach. Every step was met with the interesting sensation of warm mud squishing between our toes. The water was very shallow so our ocean…

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Blue sky, white cloulds, blue ocean and steep cliffs of Molokai's Nortn Shore

Molokai Day 1 – A Family of Five’s Journey the Friendly Isle

May 18, 2018 Christa Goodwin Comments 2 comments

Join one family’s holiday voyage to Hawaii’s 5th largest island. This island is approximately 38 miles long and 10 miles wide, with the tallest sea cliffs in the world, zero traffic lights, rumored to be the birthplace of hula, and home of U.S.’s longest continuous fringing reef. Can you guess what tropical paradise this is? It is…Molokai! Flying from Oahu to Molokai Before dawn, my husband and I and our three sleepy daughters climbed aboard a small plane departing from…

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