Stellar and Amazing

EG just left for Bali today with his girlfriend for two weeks. So, I am living in this oceanfront house alone. We tried to have the family come over but they just couldn't take the time off right now.

You do understand what I mean by oceanfront, yeah? You know, one side of the house faces the yard and the street and neighborhood. Not that I ever saw the show but one of the boats used in 'Baywatch Hawaii' lives right across the street. It's all so Hawaii normal, with streetlights, telephone poles, electrical wires mailboxes, garbage cans, stray cats and cars all crowding little two lane Front street.

But then you walk in the house, or around the house through the yard, yard being a term meaning wild, overgrown, beautiful, lush ground with Starfruit trees, a giant Mango tree, an Avocado tree, Banana trees, ginger flowers, Hibiscus, Plumeria, Taro and all the other stuff that I don't know what it is crowding and jockeying for the abundant sun, the occasional rain and the limited but fertile soil. You have to cut it down constantly because if you don't, whatever it is that you use to cut it down with will be swallowed up in the brand new undergrowth and never seen again.

One way or another, you make your way to the back of the house. From the back deck (lanai in Hawaiian), you are ten feet from the Pacific. The only things in your way are a couple worn wooden steps and a hot tub.

The island of Lanai is right across the channel. The nice thing about Lanai is that you can't see any lights on it at night. Only a few hundred people live on it but that's on the other side.

This cove here is called Shark Pit. I love that name. There is a surf break three hundred yards out and there are surfers there from six a.m. through sunset. It's a gnarly break.

My goal is to someday be able to surf it. Otherwise, it is so dang inconvenient. I have to walk up the beach past zillion dollar a night hotels to get to the breakwall. Or, I have to drive south for 7 minutes in Danny's 69' Corvette Stingray with the surfboard strapped in the passenger side to try to surf at another great beginner spot.

It's pretty stellar and it's amazing how I get to live my life. I'm exquisitely lucky, and at the same time have made choices along the way that have contributed.

Oh, and since it's all west facing, great sunsets, too.