what Lush area has sunshine and 70's temperatures?

[critterlover]

Monty: My absolutely favorite place to have lived on this island was Volcano! We lived there for the first 5 years we lived here. It is night and day different from the lower elevations. It gets really chilly during the winter months but the day time temps are usually in the 70's. The other locale that is similar is Waimea...but a little pricier. There are sections of the Volcano area that would be unattractive to us because they are nearly always inundated with the Vog; but other areas which are crisp,clear and beautiful, like living at the top of the world. If I had my druthers I'd move back up there in a heart beat. The onshore breeze here at the ocean is fairly steady. When we lived in HPP the house was so nicely designed it caught the breeze and we were never hot. That is not the case where I live now. The breeze just blows right past our home and we have to run our AC sometimes during the hotter months. But the breeze is there and with the breeze it is comfortable. The weather here runs in spells...some years it is really wet, some not. We've enjoyed a year with a lot more sun than the few years before and while my husband and myself are not sun worshipers it has been pleasant. Our subdivision is not built up so much so we still have a lot of tall trees, finally started getting birds the second year we lived here and of course our coqui population. Quiet here is phenomenal. The dark nights and beautiful night skies are awesome. We are really blessed to live here.

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[TheodoreJay]

Sounds like you are talking about Captain Cook area/elevation, Kona coffee country, rainy enough to support vegetation but not raining all of the time. Puna/Hilo's too rainy for you and Waikoloa to dry. Waimea is nice but pretty rainy and cool most of the time. Volcano is def. nice but prone to being fogged over and very cool at night.
A beach site would be nice but what about hurricanes or tsunamis? If you don't like earthquakes at all head for at least Kauai.

[Rob Tucker]

What may not be on the Hawaii Atlas is the flow of Vog. South Kona and Kona have been getting hit pretty hard with Vog this past decade. No way to really predict the future on that but it is worthy of concern for a lot of people.

[tada]

you should buy my 5 acre paddock by the Waimea Golf Course- right between the wet side and dry side the dry like Wyoming and the wet going toward Honokaa more like Mendocino. Going up past Hilo toward the Saddle Road much cheaper though.

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[missydog1]

>>> Going up past Hilo toward the Saddle Road much cheaper though.

As it should be, because when Mauna Loa goes off that area is very vulnerable. If the lava gets that far, it will take out Kaumana ...
Every place on the Big Island has something to put up with as well as great rewards. If you are on a budget, that limits your choices.