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Capturing The Sunset at Shipwreck Beach

Shipwreck Beach is located on Kauai’s South shore.  The beach is easily accessible from a hiking trail that straddles the coastline just inside the shoreline.  The Trailhead to Shipwreck Beach is on the west end.  The Hiking Trail is 1.6 miles in length (one-way).

The beach gained its name for a wooden boat that […]

Nu’alolo Trail – A Test on Many Fronts With Reward

The Nu’alolo Trail on Kauai’s Na Pali Coast is a high demand high reward eight mile round trip hike.

From a categorization standpoint, the hike can move from being demanding or challenging to one of high risk for injury or worse based on:

Weather conditions (current and recent past). Fitness and health of the […]

Elusive But Worth The Search

The North American Rocky Mountain Goat is an elusive animal.  Its native territory stretches from Southeast Alaska down to the Boulder and Pioneer Mountains near Sun Valley, Idaho.  The goats seen in Glacier National Park, Colorado, and Utah have been transplanted to these regions and in many cases desensitized to humans.

The irony […]