Emerald beauty captures the senses and snares the hear in an almost mystical way. Soar above her sheer ramparts in a helicopter over lacy waterfalls that spill into mountain pools, or be the first to leave footprints on the pristine sands of a beach some early morning and you’ll want to return again and again to feel the magic.
History As the oldest of the major Hawaiian Islands, Kaua’i in legend was the first to be populated, initially by Hawaiian gods, and at a later date by menehune, legendary little people who worked at night to build such archeological anomalies as the Menehune Ditch, a rock-lined waterway near Hanapepe.
Testimony of the Tahitian settlement on the island form 1090 through 1240 AD, the well-preserved remains of the old temple of Poli’ahu Heiau can still be viewed along Poli’ahu Heiau can still be viewed along the Wailua River Centuries later, Captain James Cook landed in Waimea in 1778; an easy-to-miss monument and statue commemorate his Sandwich Islands discovery.