- Yellow Productions presents
the Best Sandy Beaches With Easy Access
on the Island of Kauai in Hawaii,
I'm Chris, this is Topher, this is Yellow Productions,
we do travel guides, that are fun, informative
and entertaining and in this video,
we're gonna be sharing with you
some of the best sandy beaches,
that are easy to get to in Kauai,
where before we went to Kauai, we didn't realize
that Kauai actually has very few sandy beaches
with easy parking, bathrooms, lifeguards
and that are good to swim at,
so we're gonna tell you where those few places are.
The first one we're gonna start with
is the beach that we're at and this is the Poipu Beach Park,
it is on the South Shore,
kind of in the center of the South Shore
amongst a lot of the hotels and resorts.
This is one of Kauai's idyllic beaches,
one of the most popular on the South Shore of Kauai,
it's two crescent-shaped beaches, nice sand,
the sea turtles often come up here,
it's protected by a rock jetty,
which also makes it good for snorkeling,
when it's not too windy,
there's also an island in the middle,
that protects some of the waves as well,
there's ample parking, bathrooms, a lifeguard tower,
oh and did I mention there's wild chickens?
There's wild chickens in most of the beaches in this video.
Alright, let's go check out some of the other easy beaches
to park and swim at, alright, here we go
and just continuing on from the Poipu Beach Park,
there's the Marriott Beach Club and the Sheraton,
there's kind of sandy beaches,
that extend all on this way to the Sheraton,
they're not as calm, they get a little bit more waves,
I should also mention on the beaches,
it can be pretty windy in Kauai,
so make sure if you're putting your towels down
and things like that, you put some weights on them,
otherwise they're gonna fly away
and your stuff won't be here anymore.
Another great big, sandy beach
on the South Shore of Kauai in Poipu
in front of the Grand Hyatt Poipu is Shipwreck Beach,
this beach is famous, 'cause there was a shipwreck,
that wrecked upon it, but it's a big, wide, sandy beach,
there's a lot of rocks in it,
so not super good for swimming, really popular for surfing
and boogie boarding by the cliff over there,
it's also been a popular spot for cliff diving,
Justin Bieber's famous for having dove over there,
but if you just like sand, you wanna walk on the sand,
then check out Shipwreck Beach in front of the Grand Hyatt.
The closest nice beach to Lahore Airport is Kalapaki Beach,
this beach right here, easy to find,
because it's in front of the Marriott,
that big, ugly pink building behind me
and this beach is nice,
'cause it's a big, wide sandy stretch of beach,
there's a beachfront path in front of it
for biking or walking,
right next to it is Duke's restaurant, a famous restaurant,
but this beach, if we pan over this way,
it's really popular for swimming, stand up paddle boarding
and it's also the cruise ship terminal,
you can see the cruise ships come in back there,
so if you're coming in or out of a cruise,
this'll be your closest beach,
but one of the best beaches for ultra protected swimming
is Lydgate Beach Park, it's on the East Shore
and it is super protected, 'cause it has a big rock thing
around the whole area, where you can swim,
there's two pools, there's the adult pool
and the KK pool, or the kid's pool, but as you can see here,
the waves are really, really choppy,
it's really, really windy and so it's nice
to get in that protected thing to swim
and not have to worry about the waves and the pounding surf.
Lydgate Beach also has lifeguards and bathrooms,
plenty of parking, picnic areas and for the little kiddos,
a pretty big children's playground.
If you're looking to ride a bicycle,
while you're on Kauai,
Lydgate Park is a great place to do it,
it's got this non-motorized vehicle path
runs along the water,
runs along the other side of the hotel, pretty wide
and this is one of the few places
I've actually seen people riding a bike,
I've seen a lot of bike lanes striped on the streets,
but almost nobody riding in those,
'cause those are good places to get run over,
this place looks pretty nice and right along the water.
One of the coolest beaches on the North Shore
is right below the St. Regis Princeville,
it's the Puu Poa Beach, it's a little hard to get to,
but there is a parking lot
with about eight or nine spots right in front,
if you can't get those,
the St. Regis will valet park your car for free,
but it's cool, 'cause this is a little pocket, sandy beach,
calm waves, protected by a reef
and it kind of feels really
just kind of away from everything,
like your own personal little beach here.
Now I guess if you're staying at the St. Regis,
it's even better,
'cause then you've got the pool and the beach chairs,
not a lot of beaches in Kauai have chairs on the beach,
so if you do want one of those,
then check out the St. Regis,
'cause there's chairs on the sand here.
The North Shore has some of the best beaches on Kauai,
'cause they're some of the most secluded,
lush and protected in the summer,
in the winter, they can be pretty choppy,
but the access to the North Shore beaches,
some of the hardest, 'cause there's not a lot of parking
and a lot of the beaches on this side,
you have to like walk down steep cliffs
and steep hiking trails and probably not a lot of videos
on the North Shore in this video,
'cause I'm all about beaches with access,
that you can get to easily,
but again, this one at the St. Regis is pretty easy,
'cause you can just park in front of it
and you don't have to hike down a long way,
either staircase or the elevators.
One point, this side of the island, 'cause it's wetter,
there's like way more mosquitoes,
so bring your mosquito repellent or your hand ready to slap.
The other big, sandy beach with easy access
on the North Shore is Hanalei Bay,
this bay right here is a big, crescent-shaped bay,
there's like four different beaches that are on it,
it's famous 'cause movies were shot here,
the best place to park, if you're coming here
is at the Hanalei Pavilion Beach Park,
there's bathrooms, a lifeguard tower,
parking lot right there, and you can access the whole bay,
down this way, there's a famous pier on the bay,
in the summer, it's calm for swimming,
in the winter, it's a popular boogie boarding
and surfing spot and this beach also,
North Shore I will say, it's pretty natural,
so there's a bunch of stuff,
that's like washed up on it and logs and sticks,
but I think that gives it the appeal
of a natural and rugged North Shore.
If the beach of the St. Regis,
which is just up the hill behind me
seemed too manicured for you,
well come down the hill to Hanalei Beach,
Hanalei Beach, it's very natural and all these things
were things that I found on the beach,
I found some bamboo, I found a stick, I found a coconut
and I found a palm frond and I didn't even put it like this
and apparently at this beach, you can actually park
right on the sand just to the side of the pier,
there were tons of cars parked right on the beach,
that makes for extra plenty of parking.
Just north of Wailua town is Anahola Beach,
Anahola Beach, it's a crescent-shaped bay,
there's more locals that come here, but I'll tell ya,
this is actually a pretty nice beach,
I mean, maybe not today, 'cause I'm here on a cold day,
but I can see how this would be nice on a warm day,
lifeguard towers, bathrooms, huge parking lot,
the parking lot is dirt,
so be slow, when you come through it,
but there's, you know,
just another one of these great combinations
between grass and beach and trees
and so this would be a great beach to come to on a hot day,
because there's lots of shade from trees
in front of the beach.
So you may be thinking to yourself,
"These beaches in Kauai look pretty nice,
"don't they all look like this?"
They don't all look like this, let me tell ya,
a lot of the beaches in Kauai look like this,
stones, wood washed up,
I mean, just try walking down this beach,
I mean, I need shoes on to walk down here,
'cause I'd get impaled by some of the sticks,
you wouldn't see yourself swimming or even sunbathing here.
This is where I have to give my obligatory safety plug,
there are lots of people, that drown every year in Hawaii
and so almost on every beach,
even if they don't have lifeguards,
they have these yellow things,
that you could throw to people, to help save them
and then when they do have lifeguards,
they'll often have signs that tell you,
passed this side, then you're on your own,
if you're not a safe ocean swimmer,
then make sure you're on one of the lifeguarded beaches.
A lot of the quiet beaches have these nifty maps,
speaking of safety, they'll tell you
where the shore break is, where the rip currents are
and so you can take a look at this
to get a good overview of where the beach is,
maybe where some of the safer places are,
where some of the rescue tubes and where the lifeguards are.
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