Just minutes up the slopes of Hualalai Volcano (dormant) from Kona Bay on Old Mamalahoa Hwy, this ‘40s vintage wood frame “jewel box in a bird-park” is surrounded by a Coffee & Green Tea orchard, Mac-nut trees, Banana, Tangerines, tropical Grapefruit, lilies, bromeliads, heliconia, anthurium and ginger. Beautifully lit, nice & warm, well ventilated with a fireplace for those chilly and/or rainy nights at this 1,560’ elevation. Hardwood floors, hand-knotted and sculpted carpets, rough sawn cedar bevelboard walls, open-beam vaulted ceilings, ocean-horizon views. Guest Bath w/ shower (outdoor claw-foot tub, shower, pull-chain toilet in progress, along with pond re-build). Rainwater catchment Koi Pond adjacent sun-struck rear lanai w/ BBQ and open-air Chiminea for your marshmallow roast. Front porch park bench faces a teak bench under a canvas umbrella sheltered by Bingabing trees across a grassblok courtyard. Huge Banyan, Mango & Avocado nearby give the feel of an arboretum. Short stroll to fabulous shoreline views? Walk in the country? Join our pups in the orchard? Sure, just steps away!
At it’s closest proximity to Kailua-Kona, Old Mamalahoa Hwy skirts the Island at an ideal elevation for a “good night’s sleep”. We are three miles north of the art colony at Holualoa, along a Historic Corridor dating back to the origins of life in West Hawai’I. It’s just 2 mi. further N. to Palani Junction. Turn left to Kona Bay just 3mi. further on with Hulihe’e Palace (historic winter residence of Hawaiian Royalty), and Mokuaikaua Church ( 1st Christian Church in Hawai’i just full of gorgeous Koa wood within a lava rock and coral mortar exterior). A right turn at Palani Junction takes you to Hina Lani Drive en route to our beaches, or 40 mi. to Waimea, or 75 mi. E. to Hilo, or 90 mi. SE. to Kilauea Volcano and beyond.