MILLER MOLOKAI

THE ULTIMATE GETAWAY

MOLOKA'I, THE LAST OF OLD HAWAI'I

HAWAI'I AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

HAWAI'I BEFORE TALL BUILDINGS AND CROWDS

Only 5,000 remarkably friendly people inhabit the fourth largest of the Hawaiian islands. The island has only one resort hotel which houses those few tourists who discover Moloka'i's sunny west end. Here lies Papohaku Beach, the longest and widest in the entire 1,000 mile Hawaiian archipelago.

But, along this nearly 3 miles of oceanfront, only a handful of houses view the tropical green Pacific. Strict land use laws and water limitations limit the growth of Moloka'i allowing it to remain an island of open ranchlands, tropical forests and steep mountain cliffs. As remote as it seems, Moloka'i is only nineteen minutes from the Honolulu airport.

From the island field, a fifteen minute drive over the windblown headlands brings you down the islands' leeward slopes past the wildlife preserve and through the kiawe wood to "Miller Moloka'i."

Here, surrounded by 50 acres of open space, only a small house in the distance interrupts the entirely natural setting overlooking Papohaku Beach. An Hawaiian cottage compound nestled in a wooded hillside provides 4 individual bedroom/bathroom "huts" each separated by a tropical garden but connected to the "long house," which provides a living and dining room, a kitchen and laundry facility.

As isolated as you feel, you are within 2 miles of a magnificent 18 hole golf course, a tennis facility, the island's best restaurant & a beach supply facility for surfing and snorkeling. Fishing charters are also available in the town of Kaunakakai, 20 minutes away.

But the best of Moloka'i is discovered in exploring its trails. The trails that lead you through the forest, the mountains, the ranchlands and the underwater trails that guide you through tropical fish-filled corridors. The trails that lead you ever further from the cares you've left behind.

COUNTER 3/2/97