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Hawaii Poipu kauai Beach Guide

Poipu Beach, Kauai is an easy 14-mile drive (25-30 minutes) from the Lihue airport. The Poipu Beach resort area encompasses a little over three miles of coastline. Poipu Beach is ideally located nearly midway along Kauai's scenic around-the-island highway, making it a perfect base from which to explore the island's most popular attractions. These include the incredible Na Pali Coast, Polihale Beach, Koke'e Mountain Park, the Waimea Canyon (Grand Canyon of the South Pacific) and Port Allen Harbor the launch site for many Na Pali and Niihau expeditions.

Protected by offshore reefs teeming with colorful fish, Poipu Beach is fringed with crescent shaped and sandy beaches, each with their own unique attributes.

Just steps away from world-famous Poipu Beach and Brennecke Beach you'll find a graceful plantation style home known as Brennecke Beach Cottage. From this unforgettable vantage point you may experience spinning dolphins, sea birds, humpback whales, sea turtles, and the brilliant sunsets for which Kauai's famous. Poipu Beach Hale is a large beach view home just steps from the ocean. This spacious romantic gettaway is the ideal location for many special memories with family and friends. Come and be renewed by the relaxing sound of a soft breeze rustling through the coconut fronds. Be lulled to sleep by the sounds of the waves. Watch the brilliant sunsets from the spacious deck as you BBQ and enjoy the privacy of your own place in paradise.

Drenched in sunshine just about all year round, Poipu in south Kauai is a nearly perfect resort area. It offers accommodations ranging from ultra-luxury hotels and spacious condominiums to cozy bed-and-breakfasts. There are gourmet restaurants, exclusive shops and championship golf. Poipu’s horseback riding facility, CJM Country Stables, stages authentic rodeo celebrations. Paniolo (cowboys) with show off their skills that win trophy buckles even on Mainland rodeo circuits.

Poipu Beach is a smile of sand where the sunsets are a sacrament, holding the world in a chalice of color while the sea and sky melt into golds, pinks and sometimes a flash of emerald. Dr. Beach, a noted authority on beaches, recently ranked Poipu Beach number one in the U.S.

In truth, Poipu is actually many beaches. The sheltered coves of Poipu, with their gentle surf, are the perfect spots to learn to surf or snorkel. The swimming here is idyllic. Adjacent Nukumoi Point has a reef well-populated with angel fish, striped damsels, Moorish idols, black tangs and schools of canary-colored butterfly fish. Families who gather for picnics on weekends enjoy Poipu Beach Park.

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Sunset Beach

Surfers around the world know this famous site for its spectacular winter surf - the waves can be huge, thundering peaks reaching up to 15 to 20 feet.

Wailea Beach

Wailea beach is long and wide, with good swimming and snorkeling. When waves are present, this area is also good for bodysurfing.

Secret Beach

Secret Beach, hidden away from the road up from Kapaa, is among Kauai's best-looking beaches, though swimming is usually unsafe.

Kalapaki Beach

Kalapaki Beach fronts the Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club as well as the Kauai Lagoons championship golfcourse. The crescent-shaped sand beach opens out to Nawilwili Bay, the Harbor and the Hoary Head Mountains.

Murphy Beach

George Murphy Beach Park (shortened to Murphy Beach Park over the years), but some old-timers still call it Kumimi Beach, and, just to make things really confusing, some people call it Jaycees Park.

Papohaku Beach

Papohaku Beach is one of the longest and finest beaches in the Hawaiian Islands. This beach extends over three miles of coastline and is more than 300 yards wide.

White Sand Beach

Snorkeling and scuba diving are excellent due to the easy ocean access, large fish, and underwater caves.

Waimea Beach

Waimea Bay Beach Park is home of the largest, dangerous, most spectacular, ridable surf in the world.

Kailua Beach

Kailua Beach is a world-class wind surfing destination.There are several shops in Kailua town which offer rental gear and that can arrange for lessons.

Lanikai Beach

Lanikai Beach, along Mokulua Drive, is regarded as Hawaii's best swimming beach by Oahu's residents, and once voted as the America's best beach by famous Dr. Beach

Hawaii Beaches

1.	Best Beaches
2.	Nude Beaches
3.	Beautiful Beaches
Oahu Beaches
1.	Sunset Beach
2.	Waikiki Beach
3.	Ehukai Beach
4.	Hanauma Bay
5.	Kailua Beach
6.	Lanikai Beach
7.	Waimea Bay
8.	Hamoa Beach
Maui Beaches
1.	Kapalua Beach
2.	Maluaka Beach
3.	Kaanapali Beach
4.	D. T. Fleming Beach Park
5.	Wailea Beach
Kauai Beaches
1.	Secret Beach
2.	Kalapaki Beach
3.	Hanalei Beach
4.	Anini Beach
5.	Poipu Beach
6.	Polihale Beach
7.	Salt Pond Beach Park
Lanai Beaches
1.	Shipwreck Beach
2.	Hulopoe Beach
Molokai Beaches
1.	Murphy Beach
2.	Papohaku Beach
3.	Halawa Beach Park
Big Island Beaches
1.	Kaunaoa Beach
2.	Hapuna Beach
3.	Kahaluu Beach Park
4.	White Sands Beach
5.	Anaehoomalu Beach

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