The great thing about Kauai’s north shore Puu Poa beach is the sheer volume of different backgrounds it offers. Walk ten paces and you appear to be in an entirely different place; slosh through a stream, pose at the river, enter the saturated forest or is it a jungle with scores of mangled ironwood and banyan trees? At the end of the beach there’s a roughtrodden trail that leads up an incline to the ruins also known as the ridge above Hanalei. In an hour I can take you through it all.
