Trying to find the best house site

The land rises about 220 feet from the river to the top. There are a lot of great house sites, but the only place to see the ocean is from the upper property. Really, the land is two different pieces:

Down By The River. with about 3 house sites and great river views and absolutely no neighbors in sight and the river is the only sound you hear. You might as well be a thousand miles from anywhere! There are a couple of acres of flat area for house and yard. No ocean view though. The pictures in the previous posts were of the "Down by the River" area.


Ra'am and I were discussing the many different places we could site the house when Karen and Luka showed up. Karen took this photo of us as we walked off the ridge area.

We walked the ridge to look for a house site.








The Highland and Ridge. The ridge is 300 feet long...begins at about 60 feet wide and slowly thins to about 20 feet wide.










Luka gets a ride along the ridge towards the ocean.















Luka and I are standing about 100 feet from the tip of the ridge. The ridge was originally covered with waiwi which I cut by axe and chainsaw.

The tip of the ridge is only a few hundred feet from the ocean.

I have begun to hand clear this area and still need to take down a lot of waiwi.

From the front of ridge you can only hear the ocean and river. At the back of the Highland you can kind of hear the main road and is close to an empty lot with possible neighbors in the future.


Between the Highland and the Ridge there is a grove of four old growth Mango trees (see left) and giant bamboos. This grove is about two acres and the widest part of the upper land.






The decision- where to build the house?