North Kona Home Sales

 BIG ISLAND RESIDENTS BEWARE! NA’ALEHU may be habit forming. Once you’ve seen the beauty of the countryside and tasted Na’alehu’s delights, you may find yourself looking forward to a Ka’u get-away. Soon you too may notice dimples on your butt, saddlebag thighs, double chins and a big belly.  You can probably walk away from the bakery’s home made salads and sandwiches. Well, sometimes you can. It is possible to resist the exotic flavored ice-cream. At the pastry display, however, is where you may well lose your resolve! But I am getting ahead of myself.

A FEW YEARS BACK the real estate market was a-booming and life was incredibly hectic for Kona. On a rare day off, friend and fellow real estate agent, Jan Engle, introduced me to Ka’u. After visiting Whittington Park, we had a look at a piece of ocean front conservation land she had her eye on. I was smitten with the spring-green hills long before we got to the incredible Punalu’u Black Sand Beach at Mile Marker 56. Jan introduced me to her friend, Barb, who showed us around Colony One condos at Sea Mountain.  We had lunch in Na’alehu before we went to see the Discovery Harbour lot Barb was ready to build on. By the time we passed South Point on our way back to Kona, I was SOLD! 

BEFORE LONG MY HUSBAND was in the truck and we had looked at every lot for sale in Discovery Harbour. Ecstatic to find a subdivision this far from city life, yet still “on the grid”, we picked our lot and bought it. Next we started looking for house plans and began dreaming of our Ka’u hide-away.  Over the next few years, whenever we found the time, we made our way to Na’alehu to admire our hide-away home-site, dream a little and eat at the Punalu’u Bake Shop.

OVER TIME WE ATE OUR WAY to dimples, doubles and saddlebags. On our last trip we brought home a baker’s dozen malassadas, a loaf of coconut bread and half dozen pieces of bread pudding. That was in addition to what we ate while we were there. Realizing we cannot resist the bake goods at Na’alehu. My husband at last declared, “Sell the lot!”

IF YOU HAVE THE IRON WILL to resist the temptation of heavenly pastries or a really high metabolism, and the desire to build a get-away with stunning views; I have a lot for sale in Discovery Harbour.  The golf course is closed for now, so I put the sales flyer for the lot on our new golf balls. E-mail DiscoveryHarbour414@KonaBigIsland.com and include your address if you want me to mail you a “golf ball sales flyer”.

If you want to test your resolve without driving to Ka’u or even coming to Hawaii, the bake shop sells goodies on-line. Click the photo or link above but remember, you have been warned about rapid weight gain.

Aloha and Mahalo,

Joyce Murphy, Realtor Broker BIC
Hawaiian Isle Real Estate LLC and Luxury Real Estate Florida, Inc.
“In Real Estate, Experience Counts!”
808-443-4302 / 808-327-1155
Joyce@KonaBigIsland.com

More Kona Real Estate Information at:
www.LuxuryRealEstateHI.com

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