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Top: Kuhio Shores Beach, one of many intimate little
beaches on the Poipu Coast. Opposite top: A group of bike
riders on the Koloa Heritage Trail bike ride. Bottom: The
Kauai beaches and shoreline.

» “We’re flying at about 90 miles an hour coastline, we glimpsed segments of the vorting alongside the cat, spotted hump-
now,” our pilot announced as we closed Kalalau Trail – and were very, very happy back whales – and ogled the scenery.
in on the walls of the island’s largest cal- we were viewing it from above. “We love it,” said Stephanie Fitzgerald, who
dera. “That gives you some perspective on The next day, our view was from sea level. lives on Kauai. She leaned back on the

how large this is.” (At 10-12 miles across,
the caldera is the largest on the Hawaiian We let the crew at Capt. Andy’s Sailing Ad- deck of sailboat, cradling her 7-year-old
ventures do all the work. Our five-hour
son, Kawai, between her legs. “I lost my
Islands.)
catamaran sail included a tasty buffet heart to Napali years ago,” she said. “It’s
When the copter hit air pockets, its dance lunch and was to include a stop for swim- always changing – the wind, the colors,

caused stomachs to lurch, hearts to race. ming and snorkeling. Unfortunately, na- the sunlight. I work taking people to see
But seconds later, we were mesmerized ture didn’t cooperate. the coast in a zodiac. It’s my day off and
by long iridescent ribbons of silvery wa- I’m here with my son – all blissed out on
terfalls cascading down the faces of ver- “Ninety-nine percent of the time we go Napali.”
snorkeling and swimming,” said Capt.
dant peaks, lush folds of emerald walls
that dropped to the bottoms of twisted Trent Conlon. But it was too rough this Her words rang true for us, too. Only we’d
time. No one complained. We photo-
canyons. And finally, soaring along the been blissed out all week long.
graphed a school of spinner dolphins ca-

74 Wine Dine & Travel Winter 2014