Kauai - Hawaii with Kids - page 378

ACCOMMODATIONS
Hanalei Bay Resort & Suites 7
Hanalei Colony Resort 1
North County Farms 9
Princeville Resort Kauai 8

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Haena Beach Park

Puupoa Beach

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DINING
Bamboo Bamboo 2
Bubba Burger 3
Hanalei Dolphin Restaurant & Fish Market 6
Hanalei Gourmet 4
Kilauea Bakery & Pau Hana Pizza 9
La Cascata 8
Lighthouse Bistro Kilauea 9
Starvin Marvin's Kilauea Deli 9
Sushi & Blues 5

Tunnels
Beach

TO NA PALI COAST
STATE PARK

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Hanalei Beach
Park

Hanalei Beach
Park

Hanalei Bay

HANALEI HANALEI

Wailoi Beach
Park

Hanalei Hanalei

Princeville
Kapaa

Princeville

Kapaa
Lihue

Kapaa Ching Young

Village

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KAUAI

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Lihue

Old Hanalei
School

Waioli Mission
House Museum

Hanalei
Mission

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Hanalei
Center

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Road, at the west end of the Hanalei River Bridge. (For details, see “For the
Active Family,” later in this chapter.) In the Hanalei Refuge, along a dirt road on
a levee, you can see the Hariguchi Rice Mill, now a historic treasure.
Now the coastal highway heads due west and the showy ridgelines of Mount
Namahana create a grand amphitheater. The two-lane coastal highway rolls
through pastures of grazing cattle and past a tiny airport and the luxurious
Princeville Hotel.
Five miles past Kilauea, just past the Princeville Shopping Center, is Hanalei
Valley Lookout. Big enough for a dozen cars, this lookout attracts crowds of peo-
ple who peer over the edge into the 917-acre Hanalei River Valley. So many shades
of green: rice green, taro green, and green streams lace a patchwork of green ponds
that back up to green-velvet Bali Ha'i cliffs. Pause to catch the first sight of taro
growing in irrigated ponds; maybe you'll see an endangered Hawaiian black-
necked stilt. Don't be put off by the crowds; this is definitely worth a look.
Farther along, a hairpin turn offers another scenic look at Hanalei town, and
then you cross the Hanalei Bridge. The Pratt truss steel bridge, pre-fabbed in
New York City, was erected in 1912; it's now on the National Registry of Historic
Landmarks. If it ever goes out, the nature of Hanalei will change forever; cur-
rently, this rusty, one-lane bridge (which must violate all kinds of Department of
Transportation safety regulations) isn't big enough for a tour bus to cross.
You'll drive slowly past the Hanalei River banks and Bill Mowry's Hanalei
Buffalo Ranch, where 200 American bison roam in the tropic sun; you may