O'ahu - Hawaii - page 193

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If you somehow find the relatively slow pace of life on the North Shore just too hectic,
try Waialua. This mill town ground to a halt in 1996, when sugar production ended.
Since then locals have transformed the old mill into a crafty shopping complex and star-
ted small-scale farms raising coffee, chocolate, vanilla and much more.

Eating
Thai and Mexican food trucks often park near the sugar mill, where the unhurried Wai-
alua Farmers Market (67-106 Kealohanui St;

8:30am-noon Sat) sets up on Saturday

mornings.

Paʻalaʻa Kai Bakery BAKERY $
( www.pkbsweets.com ; 66-945 Kaukonahua Rd; snacks & pastries $2-4; 5:30am-7pm) Take a
detour down a country road to find this family-run bakery, a pilgrimage for anyone crav-
ing a 'snow puffy' (chocolate cream puff dusted with powdered sugar), which are half-
price after 6pm. There's plenty here to satisfy any sweet-toothed traveler.

Shopping

Old Sugar Mill ARTS & CRAFTS, SOUVENIRS
(67-106 Kealohanui St; 9am-5pm Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm Sun) Waialua's former sugar mill has
been reborn as an ever-changing hub for local artisan shops. The current line-up includes
the rambling Island X Hawaii warehouse, which is full of vintage aloha shirts, wood han-
dicrafts and Waialua coffee beans and chocolate, while the North Shore Soap Factory
makes all-natural bars with tropical ingredients like kukui (candlenuts), pikake flowers
and sumptuous coconut cream. Both shops have small displays about the building's his-
tory.

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Mokuleʻia to Kaʻena Point

Hello? Is there anybody out there? The vast, empty stretches of the Farrington Hwy
(Hwy 930) show the last few signs of human habitation before the island terminates in
the deep and fearsome ocean. The road along Oʻahu's Waiʻanae Coast is also called Far-
rington Hwy (Hwy 93), but these roads don't connect - each side reaches a dead end
about 2½ miles short of Kaʻena Point.