Molokai Cottage Beach

I have been “working” on this post for days. As with most of my posts, I start by looking through pics and isolating those I want to share. I save a copy of shareable pics to a certain folder so I can re-size them, crop, zoom, etc. When I finished that exercise for the Molokai images, I probably had about 200 images to share. Really.

That’s a lot of images for a blog post. I started tossing images that I thought maybe no one but me would really want to see, but then I stopped. I have lots of pics I think should be shared so I’m going to share them. No one HAS to look, right? LOL.

Molokai really was awesome. And I only gave y’all a little peek so far. Now I’m going to fill-in the gaps.

LOCATION

Molokai isn’t a big island, but it’s diverse. Anyone who stumbles across this post, loves what they see, and decides they really want to visit the island and experience what they see in the pics, would be sorely disappointed if they stayed elsewhere on the island. Because the beaches are very different in other parts of the island.

Our cottage is located on the far western tip of Molokai. There’s an old hotel (no longer operational) and a bunch of cottages at the complex. There’s a lovely swimming pool that sits on a bluff overlooking the beach and a tiny little convenience store, which is open daily and chock-full of essentials.

Driving from the airport to the cottage, my eyes were drawn to the amazingly vivid contrast between the red ground and the blue sky and the big, puffy, white clouds. The following image captured it pretty well, but seeing it in person is always better.

PROPERTY DESCRIPTION

It’s a little weird having the old, abandoned hotel right there, but it’s reasonably well-maintained. The building that features prominently in many of my pics was the beach rental/snack shop/bath-house (I think) for the hotel. It’s kind of in disrepair and should probably be torn down, but it’s not so much of an eyesore that it needs razing immediately. It didn’t bother me at all, it just became part of the scenery. It did obstruct our view of the water and beach a bit, but it was still such a fabulous view that I wouldn’t even think to complain.

Really, how could anyone complain about that view? And it was so close to the water, it was impossible NOT to hear the waves.

There were actually several beaches within walking distance. In the satellite map view shown below, the red hour points to our cottage, the blue arrow points to our cottage beach, and the green arrow points to a bigger beach just south of the cottage, which I came to refer to as the “rock shelf” beach. The cottage beach was busier than the rock shelf beach, but “busy” is relative. The most people we saw on the cottage beach at any one time was maybe 12, certainly no more than 20. And usually both beaches were empty.

When I got tired of sitting on the patio, staring out at the water, I’d go to the beach. When I got tired of being on the beach, I’d return to the cottage and stare at the water some more. Hubby spent most of his time on the patio.

In case anyone is interested in renting the same cottage, here’s their website. I actually found the cottage at VRBO.com first. There are other places to rent on the island, but no major chain hotels. The cottage may not be idyllic at all times of the year — they can be plagued by rodents and/or insects at certain times of the year — but it was perfect for us.

COTTAGE BEACH

All of these images were either captured from the patio or on/around “cottage beach.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next up… the rock shelf beach. 🙂