Villa Oasis at Kolea

02/13/2026

Loving the Anaeho'omalu Bay, Big Island feature in the February 2026 edition of Costco Magazine.

12/07/2025

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11/25/2025

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/19/2025

Kolea has its own private access to the beach from the beach club. Simply stunning to sit along the water at sunset. I try to plan my days around our sunsets.

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10/19/2025

10/09/2025

At the Kolea Beach Club, the infinity pool overlooks aka and the ancient Hawaiian fishponds. I love coming here during sunset. Less people during this time of day. The tiki torches get lit and pool lights make for fun night time swimming. When it's full dark the stars are amazing to sit and watch thanks to limited light pollution on the island.

09/29/2025

03/07/2025

Maluhia --》Peace, tranquility, and serenity.

02/18/2025

From space, the island of Hawaii captures the imagination like a work of abstract art. Her emerald eastern coasts, studded with rich rainclouds, reach up ma uka (inland, upland, towards the mountain) as far as they can, morphing at higher elevation to bare amber and crimson lands encircling the summit of Maunakea, sometimes capped in white. Her south and western flanks speak of motion, streaked with inky brushstrokes of lava flows that travel down the long ridges of Maunaloa to the sunbaked seacoast.

This is a place filled with stories and legends, inspired by our unique island environment. An environment so diverse in elevation, winds and rains, that it brings together a climatic microcosm of earth itself. These are the Climate Zones.

Dramatic intro aside, it’s still a SciFi-esque scenario, to think that one tiny place on the planet, only 4,028 square miles in all, could contain nearly all of the world’s potential climates. The idea has become a soundbite across the visitor industry, frequently quoted, often misunderstood, and ultimately cool. The science behind it is just as cool as the concept.

It began with the work of a German-Russian botanist and climatologist, Wladimir Koppen in 1884. Koppen was trying to show the relationship between climatic zones and vegetation zones, biomes, that were being mapped for the first time. He eventually categorized climate into five major groups and fourteen subgroups. These are based on temperature and precipitation, and range from warm, wet tropical to very cold polar.

Koppen modified the study several times, including collaborative work with Rudolph Geiger, and in 1928 they introduced a wall map to illustrate the system. Koppen continued to tweak the work until his death in 1940, and it’s since been modified by other climatologists. (Later systems added a sixth group, “Highlands,” which might include any of the others, at different elevations.)

Traveling the island from the green East side to the West side’s black lava shores, or climbing up from the ocean to the mountains, it’s easy to experience the different zones in a variety of ways. Source: gohawaii.com

02/06/2025

Just one of many spots to lounge around at Kolea Beach Club with views of the Ancient fishpond and Anaeho'omalu Bay.

01/06/2025

January 6, 2020. Time flies.