The house is less than one mile (1.6 km) south of the
Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Obama exercised at the Semper Fit Center at the base and attended dinners there during his visits. He also swam in the ocean at the base of Pyramid Rock.[1]
Obama visits
August 8–14, 2008 – Obama visited Kailua August 8–14 during the
2008 United States presidential election campaign staying at a different house belonging to Jill Tate Higgins, the general partner of Lakeside Enterprises, a
Burbank, California private family investment company. During the visit he made what would be his last visit with his grandmother
Madelyn Dunham who had raised him in Honolulu from age 10 on.[2][3]
December 20–31, 2008 – Obama in his first visit to Plantation Estate took a two-week vacation after winning the election. Among the activities was the scattering of his grandmother's ashes at
Lanai Lookout at the same location where he had scattered his mother
Stanley Ann Dunham's ashes in 1995. His grandmother had died two days before Obama's election. Photographs of him shirtless on the beach were widely circulated.[4][5][6][7]
December 23, 2011 – Obama arrived six days after his family and stayed until January 1, 2012.[18] Reportedly, this year's vacation home is a few doors down from the home used in the previous years.[19]
December 21, 2012 – Obama arrived at the same house he stayed in 2011.[20]
The house is less than one mile (1.6 km) south of the
Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Obama exercised at the Semper Fit Center at the base and attended dinners there during his visits. He also swam in the ocean at the base of Pyramid Rock.[1]
Obama visits
August 8–14, 2008 – Obama visited Kailua August 8–14 during the
2008 United States presidential election campaign staying at a different house belonging to Jill Tate Higgins, the general partner of Lakeside Enterprises, a
Burbank, California private family investment company. During the visit he made what would be his last visit with his grandmother
Madelyn Dunham who had raised him in Honolulu from age 10 on.[2][3]
December 20–31, 2008 – Obama in his first visit to Plantation Estate took a two-week vacation after winning the election. Among the activities was the scattering of his grandmother's ashes at
Lanai Lookout at the same location where he had scattered his mother
Stanley Ann Dunham's ashes in 1995. His grandmother had died two days before Obama's election. Photographs of him shirtless on the beach were widely circulated.[4][5][6][7]
December 23, 2011 – Obama arrived six days after his family and stayed until January 1, 2012.[18] Reportedly, this year's vacation home is a few doors down from the home used in the previous years.[19]
December 21, 2012 – Obama arrived at the same house he stayed in 2011.[20]