Things to do on Kauai

[Plantastic]

Originally Posted by Hannibal-HI

Anyone visiting Kauai can always pick up dog crap. After visiting a couple weeks ago, we nicknamed it dog crap island. What is with dog owners. They go hiking and either just let their dogs crap the trails or bother to bag the crap and let it sit at the side of the trail for everyone to enjoy in its bagged state forever. Just ridiculous. Same thing happens everywhere in America these days, but it was really uncanny while I was there. So, bring a few Tamura's grocery bags (they're nice and sturdy) and some rubber gloves to help restore the Garden Isle by picking up dog crap. We went back day #2 and picked up over two miles of bagged dog turds just because it hurt to see it in such an otherwise beautiful place. Peace!

Right on! Thank you for doing something "crappy", to make the place less "crappy"! HAHA!

Where I moved from, I used to be able to take a short drive from a huge metropolis, to a Native American reservation right next to a river. Immediately there was no hint of development, noise, concrete, asphalt, etc.; except for all of the trash that would be thrown out there. Every time I visited, I spent the first 30-45 minutes picking up bottles, cans, diapers, plastic bags, and various debris. I just couldn't stand seeing it, or relaxing with it all around me. The Tribe eventually closed it off to all. It was very depressing and a real loss of peacefulness that was in such close proximity.

[mr.magoo]

Plantastic...who was making the mess at the Reservation, the people who were visiting or the NA tribe members?
I can't tell by the way your post is written.

thanks

[Plantastic]

Originally Posted by mr.magoo

Plantastic...who was making the mess at the Reservation, the people who were visiting or the NA tribe members?
I can't tell by the way your post is written.

thanks

Visitors, almost assuredly.

It was a very popular place due to its location, proximity to the water, and no cost admission. Most of the people that I ever saw out there were obviously not tribe members. It was popular for barbeques, tubing in the water, and beer drinking! haha!

[mr.magoo]

Thanks for clarifying..
There is beach near me at my place in Puerto Rico..same deal, touristos come, mostly young Surfers from the States, mess the place up and then blame it on the local surfers.

[KauaiHiker]

Kauai made the New York Times 20 years ago for being "trashed" and polluted. That lit a fire under the local authorities and it was better for a while. But it's been getting worse again ever since. Surfrider organization just spent $1500 to rent a front loader to remove a dozen junk cars near a beach--from the same area they did it last year. Trash and litter blowing out of pickups, trash bags and mattresses dumped down dead end roads, it's bad all over the island.

And then there are the tons (literally) of plastic washing up on beaches and remote shorelines from the Pacific trash gyre, everything from fishing net tangles, buoys, and crates (from fishing boats) to trash (plastic bottles, tooth brushes, plastic toys). There is often melted chunks of plastic, so I wonder if some countries aren't dumping incinerator waste into the ocean. Anyway, just imagine how much is out in the ocean when you see how much lands on these islands. Some times I see one or two small pieces of plastic land on the beach with every wave.

But to be honest, I walk a few trails regularly and don't see that much poop. Almost none on the trails and only occasionally a "forgotten" bag of poop.

[No Happy]

Originally Posted by KauaiHiker

Kauai made the New York Times 20 years ago for being "trashed" and polluted. That lit a fire under the local authorities and it was better for a while. But it's been getting worse again ever since. Surfrider organization just spent $1500 to rent a front loader to remove a dozen junk cars near a beach--from the same area they did it last year. Trash and litter blowing out of pickups, trash bags and mattresses dumped down dead end roads, it's bad all over the island.
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What beach was that? I saw them at Donkey's not too long ago, but I don't recall seeing scrap cars there.

[KauaiHiker]

Anahola, on vacant Hawaiian Home lands inland of the coast. News articles:

November 2015: Anahola

January 2017: Surfrider pays to have abandoned cars removed - Local - Mobile Adv

[TRlaura]

Perhaps a bit touristy, but very fun excursion to do is the tubing trip down the sugar cane irrigation ditches. Do a search on youtube, or Kauai Adventures to see this.


I could spend an entire day sitting and walking on Polihale Beach.
Yes, you have to have a rental car. They run cheap there.