More-moderate appetites might have stopped the bingeing before reaching Haleiwa, but not me. Last summer, the internationally syndicated television series Bay-watch began filming here. But development is very controlled up here. There's a strong movement -to keep 'the country' country. As sunset approaches on my final North Shore evening, I scramble for the last lanai table at Jameson's tavern, famed for its mood-soothing mai tais.
Sundown suffices as night life on the North Shore.
Walking up the road home, I pass a beach party. I nod, doubling my step in automatic urban-defense mode. Yeah, very cool.