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Eden Roc Estates Subdivision Entrance |
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Ohia Avenue looking North. The 2 lots are on the right, from where this picture was taken to the parked car. |
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These are the lots as seen from the corner of Naia St. and Ohia Ave. facing southward. They're each 1 acre with dimensions of about 167' wide by 260' deep. |
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The lots are moderately wooded with Ohia trees, hapu ferns and wild orchids. |
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There aren't many developed properties in the immediate vacinity. However the neighbor across Ohia Ave. has obviously spent considerable time and effort landscaping his place, and this helped sell us on the area |
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This is Naia St. looking west from the intersection with Ohia Ave. Our 2 lots begin at thispoint and run for a total of about 335' southward (to the right in this picture). There appear to few if any homes on this section of Naia. It - like all but 3 of Eden Roc's cross streets - are 3/4 of a mile long and gravel. |
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Across the street landscaping. |
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Of the roughly 1800 lots that comprise Eden Roc less than 300 have been developed, and most of those have the homes hidden from view. |
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Ohia Avenue looking south with our lots on the left. Ohia is one of the 2 main north-south streets in Eden Roc. It's about 3 1/2 miles long and paved it's entire length. Pavement was one of the requirements we had in our property search. We were lead to believe that all Eden Roc roads were nothing but rutted 'goat tracks' - and to be honest, most of the cross streets are a bit . . . er . . . rustic. Happily, this turned out to be another myth. |
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Sept. '05 - Marking the driveway. |
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Finally some action! 2/9/06 - The land clearing on our corner lot gets underway. |
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Our driveway on Ohia is punched in. |
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Driveway from a wider angle. |
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The drive is a gentle curve about 70' in length. |
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Near the end of the drive where it meets the house pad clearing. |
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D6 bulldozer roughing in the house pad. |
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Skye, the CAT operator playing in the mud :) |
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Here, he's widening the driveway. |
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The soil & underbrush was pushed into a pile on the Naia side of the clearing. |
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It's a good size heap o' dirt :):):) |
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This is what the clearing looked like after the first session; before the trash was scraped off. |
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The clearing after the 1st of 3 day's work. |
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We were amazed at how flat the lot was. No ripping & rolling with a bigger dozer is going to be needed! |
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Our contractor, Bud Turpin, couldn't believe how naturally level the lava is. |
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Looking into the clearing from the top of the driveway. |
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The 2nd and 3rd days were devoted to getting most of the soil & brush pushed to one side. |
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More of the clearing sans the junk. |
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Another shot of the housepad area after the dozing was done. |
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Looking back toward the top of the driveway. Most land clearing jobs require a 50+ ton D9 CAT to rip, level and then compact the lava to achieve what we have naturally. |
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We're bringing in 5 loads of gravel to top dress the driveway and a small area where our travel trailer will be placed. |
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Heading out the drive toward Ohia Ave. |
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