http://www.balihai.com/Blog/kauai-hd-webcam/
Interesting web cam
it will probaldy go viral sooner or later
almost sure, probaldy his son's crew filming it on jetski and on boat
god that's badswell action for this time of yr.
Howzit james, Have known Bill for over 40 years and have surfed Hanalei with him and Laird many times through the years but never seen him surf with his dog. The only thing is he may have started this fall and since I moved I can't say what he is up to. He did lose his new house to the Real Estate bust which was a shame and I think he had moved from the house on the river. One thing about Bill is you don't want to start any conversations that are about any negative things relating to him since he can get a little testy if you know what I mean. He is a great guy and I enjoy our friendship and miss seeing him arund town now that I have moved. Aloha,Kokua
yep, your right about the negative waves with hambone,
i recall the days past talking with him about his monster stepson and his little social interaction problem like making sand snowballs and nailing us older kids with them
so since 2007
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http://www.balihai.com/Blog/kauai-hd-webcam/
Interesting web cam
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Forwarded the link to a buddy, check the email response I got:
"cool cam and cool surf spot. Do you know if there's a place to stay right there? Hotel?
looks like just a few people out enjoying the morning, but I just saw - on the same wave - dude on an SUP with his dog riding up on the nose, a wave runner with 3 people on it, and a ski boat."
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http://www.balihai.com/Blog/kauai-hd-webcam/
Interesting web cam
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Forwarded the link to a buddy, check the email response I got:
"cool cam and cool surf spot. Do you know if there's a place to stay right there? Hotel?
looks like just a few people out enjoying the morning, but I just saw - on the same wave - dude on an SUP with his dog riding up on the nose, a wave runner with 3 people on it, and a ski boat."
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yep, should have bill hamilton and his dog sava riding a few with someone viding it,
i would think it was his stepson's crew on ski and boat,
big chance a vid will go viral soon.
ah, place to stay right on the bay?
you got big $$$$$ most of bay front house are vacation rental and up on bluff above is loads of hotel and condo
Howzit james, Don't know how I've missed seeing Bill surf with his dog but he has had a run of not good luck lately other than a beautiful new girlfriend, Is that cam the one on the Regis Hotel overlookig the bay? Yes most of the houses on the bay are now Vacation rentals that run thousands a week but there are some that are more reasonable down towards the Haena side . Now here's a mindbender, after the tsunami in the late fifties the 1 acre lots along the bay went for $10,000 each. What I would give for a time machine right now. As for the Princeville area they couldn't give those lots away till the Real Esate boom in 78', that's when things got crazy and Hanalei was found by mass tourism and rents and real estate sales went through the roof. I lived about 2 miles back up the hanalei river road and paid $50 a month for a 3 bdrm local style house.It just isn't the same place any more and that made it easier to make my move. Aloha,Kokua
nope , the cam on that piece of %@#$ on the bluff it not accessable to pub.
$10k in 50's?, still alot,
i recall pa buying a vw in 50's for $700,
kauai?, when i finaly return in 79, i thought it had gone to hell,
but a nice place to have as a base camp between feral trips to places now REALY gone to hell
though even now,
i sure you'r like me,
it was hard to leave,
check b.h. shots of last north swellage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/inter-island_helicopters/
"west is best"
j
Howzit james, Yes by 79' things were starting to change and we were starting to see non surfing people ( not hippies) with money getting interested in buying land or houses to live in, but the problem was they were bringing their mainland baggage with them and we started calling Princeville "Little Newark" . Those are some nice pictures and wind must have had a little south or lots of east in them to make it look like there was off sfhore to them since the trades will blow Queens pond out. If you were ther in 79' then you must have eaten at the Tropical Taco truck we had in front of the Dolphin Restaurant.As a local haole boy things were changing but nothing like now, Hanalei is such a tourist town and the end of the road is a zoo. It is still a beautiful place but nothing like the 60's and 70's and during the 80's I had a Tropical Taco on the east side in the Big Save shopping center and was on that side for about 11 years before moving back to Hanalei in 91'.Hanalei will always be in my heart and soul and hope to get back there or maybe Maui sometime in the future. Aloha,Kokua
yep by late 70's was going fast,
a stoplight on kauai,? a McDonald?!!!
i remeber being out na pali and having to walk all the way to ching yung not because no one would pick you up but because there was no driving around
oh , the cam is on the last house on left before black pot beach
and it was kona's during that north swell, in the pics
The first McDonalds was built in 19 72 or 73 . The contractor I worked for did part of that job. ( I didn't work on it ! ) I was building a house and a sail boat up on German hill at the time. When McD opened Bruce Smith and I went down and got some Egg Mcmuffins and brought them up to the job sight for breakfast. About an hour laiter I got sick and had to go home. Bruce Smith smoked enough pot that he doesn't recall if he got sick but the next day he started calling the egg Mcs ONK burgers! I never eat those damn things for many years after that !!! I remember when they put the first stoplight up an Kauai they had several wrecks there every day cause no one paid any attention to it !!! I used to love Hanalei but it is so screwed up I don't go out there any more !!
Howzit Wood_Ogre, I don't remember a McDonald's in 73 and I think it was a couple of years later but at our age our brain hard drives probably need a good defrag. The first stop light was on the westside and it was a light for the cane trucks crossing the highway and 99.9 % of the time it just blinked yellow and the secnd one was in Lihue. I do rmember times when we would go to Lihue only about once every 4 months and The only real stores to do any Xmas shopping was Roberts in Kapaa or Kauai Store in Lihue. We had 4 restaurants on the North Shore and you went to Ching young store or the Trader store to buy food and both had gas pumps also.
James, I can remember when you could drive from hanalei to the end of the road without seeing another car so walking all the way was almost a given. In 78 I moved to an alerton house next to Taylor camp that had no electricity or city water and we made our own water system from the Limahuli stream which is known as the cold pond. and we paid a whole $35 a month and the house had a gas stove and refrigerator and we bathed in the stream until I put in a water heater and shower and then we were in heaven. If you drive to the end of the road today you would think the circus is in town it is so crowded whereas when I ived down there you might see 4-5 cars max for the sunset and I would usually o fishing about thattime of the day there. so much for the good days and Wood_Ogre I don't blame you for not going out there now a days. Aloha,Kokua
good old kauai,
remember being picked up at the old airport (ahhhh!, miss it) by my cousin once when no adults around.
he drove by the cop shop and went,
"look, 3 cruisers there, that's all the cop car on isle. they all stay playing cards"
and then having a very fun FAST drive to waimea
and you forget the stoplight on cane road popiu/koloa
The stop light out Kekaha and the one between koloa and poipu were owned by the cane companies and used only during cane haul season. The first real traffic light was in Lihue and I don't remember the year. Am going to check my work records if I can find the time for the date of McDonalds. I have my job records all the way back to 1971 and use them for estimateing time for bidding on jobs. But to correct one thing it was not egg mcmuffins but their regular hamburgers. The egg mc muffins didn't come around till 1975.
Howzit james, Before they put the substation by Princeville there was only 1 police car to patrol from kealia to the end of the road so when there was a problem it could take awhile before the police showed up. I was so sad to see Dewayne Souza retire because he was probably thelast of the old time police who was a good friend and used to come tomy restaurant in Kapaa all the time. How about when it took almost 2 hrs to get from the airport to Hanalei, now it's about 45 minutes if there is no traffic. I think the thing is that we were lucky to have lived and surfed on Kauai when it was still a small local style island that had less than half the population it has today. When I moved to Hanalei from Oahu the population of the North Shore from Kiluauea to the end of the road was 2,000 people and nw there re more than that in Princeville alone. Aloha,Kokua
ah, the story comes out, hambone making some $$$$ that day with sava,
shooting a commericial for dog food,
good for him