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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
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 Posted - 01/23/2005 : 11:10:16 PM
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We've been having a great time, catching incredible music, but I have to make special mention of Mike Ka`awa at Honey's. Mike, Ocean Kaowili, and Analu Aina are really terrific. Really really terrific. The Friday night gig is these three talented players doing a wide range of beatiful stuff and cajoling any dancers in the audience into joining in.
The Sunday gig is a jam, a kanikapila with organization. Paul Kim joins in on sweet steel. Then the talent comes up from the audience. Mostly wonderful ukulele players and singers, some guitar players, some folks who just sing. The band is amazing, covering every style and song, providing sublime support, and the talent that joins them is startling.
A surprise to me was the reasonable cost and fine quality of the food. We would go there to eat even without the INCREDIBLE music. It's easy to find, on the Ko`olau side of Kamehameha right where H3 goes over. Kionaole Road. Check it out on the internet if you're in the neighborhood and definitely put this one on your calendar.
Fran
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javeiro
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 01/25/2005 : 08:23:45 AM
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I'm glad you discovered it, Fran! We moved from nearby Kailua to Olympia, Washington nearly three years ago and it's one of the places that we really miss ... for both the food and the entertainment. We always return there on our trips back for family visits.
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javeiro
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 01/25/2005 : 08:41:28 AM
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I thought I'd also relate a bit of history on the Honey's name for you. I grew up in nearby Heeia and there was a very popular old tavern there on the corner of Kamehameha Highway and Lilipuna Road that was called Honey's. Like a lot of other old hangouts, it was torn down when the shopping center now in it's place was developed. There is still a free-standing restaurant on that corner of the center but I don't recall what the name of it is since it's changed ownership several times. The Ko'olau range there is another thing that my wife and I miss. It is such a spectacular sight that we haven't seen the likes of anywhere else. And the Ko'olau Golf Club sits right at the base of it. That golf course, incidentally, was billed as "the most difficult course in America" too, if you're a golfer.
Aloha, |
Aloha,
John A. |
Edited by - javeiro on 01/25/2005 10:43:17 AM |
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a
USA
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javeiro
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 01/25/2005 : 10:41:10 AM
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Funny you should mention that highway. It was re-routed several times because they unearthed some old Hawaiian archealogical sites during construction. And before they opened it, they had a ten-mile run that started on the windward side near Kamehameha Highway and ended in the Aloha Stadium on the other side of the Ko'olau's. My wife and I participated and it was a real experience. Just imagine thousands of people running up the hill (the first 3-1/2 miles were all uphill), through the more than one mile long tunnel and down the hill on the other side! You've driven it so you can just imagine running it. I honestly don't know which way I like it better .... driving up from the windward side with the morning sun shining on the almost vertical undulating curtain that defines the Ko'olau's or driving the other way and popping out of the dark tunnel to be greeted by the sight of that beautiful blue ocean beyond the lush green blanket of landscape that is Kaneohe (with it's rainforests, banana patches and Ho'omaluhia Park) so far below you. It is truly an awe inspiring experience either way that I will never tire of.
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Aloha,
John A. |
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