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Travel. I’ll go anywhere from total wilderness to total luxury, as long as I’m going somewhere.
The Outrigger Canoe Club (above) in Waikiki, Oahu. Founded in 1908 (when the only other places on the beach were the pink Royal Hawaiian Hotel and the Moana Surfrider), the Outrigger is where locals go to enjoy every water sport their island paradise has to offer: outrigger canoeing, paddleboarding and surfing (surf legend Duke Kahanamoku was a member). If you can’t get into the club, the retro cool Kaimana Hotel a few doors down is on its twin beach. Grab a mai tai at their Hau Tree restaurant and watch the sunset – it’s rumoured Robert Louis Stevenson wrote beneath the heart-shaped leaves of these very hau trees.
Every time I step on to Kailua Beach Park, a 40-minute drive from Waikiki, I gasp at the miles of fine white sand and turquoise water stretching out towards the Mokulua islands. With the emerald green Ko’olau Mountains as a dramatic backdrop to this crescent shaped bay, and no highrise hotels, it’s blissfully serene.
North Shore Goodies Coconut Peanut Butter at Kalapawai Market right by Kailua Beach.
Make sure your sunscreen is reef safe — Hawai’i was the first state in the U.S. to ban sunscreen containing the coral-harming chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate. I pack SuperGoop! Unseen Sunscreen.
As cheesy as it sounds I always try to bring back some of the aloha spirit. The University of Hawai’i defines it as “the coordination of mind and heart, bringing each person to the self, you must think and emote good feelings to others, in contemplation and presence of the life force.”
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