8 Best Beaches on Kauai Hawaii

The 8 best sandy beaches with easy access and parking on Kauai. EXPAND DESCRIPTION FOR FULL LIST. Being an island, Kauai has lots of coastline, but many of the beaches on Kauai are rocky or really hard to get to. In this video I'll tell you what I consider to be the best beaches, because I think the best beaches are the ones that are easy to get to, and have sand! Topher's Timecodes [Click to skip to section]: (00:33) Poipu Beach Park (01:15) Kiahuna Beach (01:42) Shipwreck Beach (02:10) Kalapaki Beach (02:47) Lydgate Beach Park (03:49) Puu Poa Beach (05:17) Hanalei Beach (06:30) Anahola Beach 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? Continuing 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 Lihue 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. 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. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/yellowwsub You might enjoy watching more videos from my Hawaii series in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KhEfk8sGo&list=PLOVadUHX1B-JWBsSMXdWLSDRXhfvwww9l Or just the videos from the Kauai series in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOVadUHX1B-Ja7S9z1epLc2gsEQZBXQc- Yellow Productions on social media: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/YellowProductionsTravel INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/yellowwproductions/ TWITTER: ChrisRaney GOOGLE+: https://google.com/+yellowwproductions Check out my blog at: http://yelloww.net Yellow Productions Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/yellowproductions My video gear: Sony FDR-AX53 4K Handycam: http://amzn.to/2hYePVc Sony ECMW1M Wireless Microphone: http://amzn.to/2gQKDGG Samsung Gear 360 Camera: http://amzn.to/2hKKyGE LensPen Lens Cleaner: http://amzn.to/2hPYui1 Pacsafe LS250 Anti-theft Shoulder Bag: http://amzn.to/2h0YCNt Manfroto Pixi Mini Tripod: http://amzn.to/2ilJms6 Manfrotto Twist Grip Clamp: http://amzn.to/2hYEnyN Music: (killertracks.com) UPM_ATMOS351_12_Summer_Is_Here_Main_Track_Mead_Jane_928729 UPM_NYB116_2_Blue_Skies_Ahead_Main_Track_Petty_Petty_903752 UPM_NM296_11_Hawaiian_Breezes_Main_Track_Petty_Petty_430933 UPM_NM290_5_Tahiti_Tiki_Jam_Main_Track_West_375279