Makahuena View :: Poipu, Kaua’i

Garden Island :: Poipu, Kaua’i

No, it’s not a new dance craze.. the Makahuena is the condo complex where we stayed in Poipu, Kaua’i. The same one we stayed in last year. Except last year we had a 3 story, 4 bathroom suite and this year our unit was all on the same floor, still 3 bedrooms, but only 2 bathrooms.

I love waking up in the morning, making some Hawaiian coffee and reading either the Garden Island or the Honolulu Advertiser on the lanai overlooking the ocean.

After we checked into our condo on the day we arrived, we went and got some late night snacks - poke, inari, Maui chips. Around the condo we kept all kinds of local favorites to grind - poke (hot chile poke, tako poke, salmon poke, a traditional seaweed/onion poke) shrimp chips, seared ahi, various kinds of sushi, haupia, and boiled peanuts. If this vacation had a subtitle it was “The Vacation Where I Ate Raw Fish Every Day.”

One other note - this year we barely hung out at the pool at all where last year we were there every minute we were at the condo. Why? This year there were less people who enjoyed that sort of thing, but the main reason is THE KIDS!! In the summer all the kids are on break and on vacation with their families. So much for relaxing by the pool! I could barely sit there with a bunch of kids kicking and splashing and screaming and laughing and arguing. Instead we found a secluded beach nearby and went back there a couple times.

See also:
» The Makahuena (Kodak Gallery, 7 photos)