Kauai Boat Tours

On our Kauai, Hawaii, boat tour, we took a boat ride partway around the island (leaving on the southwest side, going to the northwest side) to see the Na Pali cliffs, a coastline 22 miles long that can't be seen by car or on foot. 

The tour guide told us that the steep, volcanic cliffs had caught the attention of Hollywood directors, who filmed scenes there from movies including Jurassic Park, South Pacific, King Kong, and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Here is a shot of one of the beaches that the directors used. At the top left of this page, there is a shot from our boat inside a sea cave on the Na Pali coast.

On the boat tour, we stopped at a couple of likely spots to snorkel, and we ate lunch.  All in all, it was a very agreeable day!

What we didn't see:  dolphins or whales.  We were there in mid-August. December through March is the right time of year for seeing whales on such a boat trip.  That's also a time when the surf is up on the north coast, making it harder to get a look at Na Pali from a boat without getting seasick.