Kailua

Kailua may be the most beautiful place on this earth. I was asking my mother why God didn't just make every place in the world look like Kailua, but came to the conclusion that probably it is because we do need corn fields, ski slopes, and dirt bike trails so now it all makes sense. While in Kailua one day, the urge to paddleboard overcame me. Paddleboarding is great, and pretty self-explanatory. You get a great big surf board, a paddle, and paddle away. There is a canal that runs through the town that is very calm and winds through a residential area, where people can sit out in their backyards and watch you paddling down the river, or falling in the river, or whatever you may be doing on (or off) your board at the moment. Paddleboarding in the ocean is also fun, but much more work. The waves are continually testing your balance. There is a small island off of Kailua beach called flat Island that you can paddleboard or Kayak to, or if you are crazy like my husband, swim out to with a piece of crap boogie board (which, by the way, he bought me for Christmas-it broke- I took it back to Walmart- they told me it was worth $11.00- I will remember this next Christmas).