Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... KAUAI, Hawaii — On my third visit to Kauai, it was time to embrace the wilder side. Instead of lolling on the Hawaiian island’s delectable beaches last month ...

2005-08-28 04:00:00 PDT Wailua, Kauai-- "When we get to the waterfall, it could be crowded or empty," said Jon Fisher, the 22-year guide for our kayak trip. "We never know." Luck was with us on a ...

Everyone knows that person who spends weeks sniffing around travel blogs, going deep into Tripadvisor rabbit holes, collecting Google docs from friends of friends, and creating A Beautiful Mind–style ...

"The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook" (by Andrew Doughty, Wizard Publications, $16.95) gives detailed and useful visitor advice, including on outdoors adventures and accommodations (and its website, ...

KAUAI, Hawaii — On my third visit to Kauai, it was time to embrace the wilder side. Instead of lolling on the Hawaiian island's delectable beaches last month, I hurtled through the air on ziplines; ...

National Geographic magazine ranks kayaking this fabled coastline of Kauai, Hawaii's fourth largest island, as one of America's great adventures. It describes the experience as "the most stunning ...

>Paddle to the sea Bright-yellow kayaks skimmed along the Hanalei River as it meandered through the junglelike greenery of Kauai's north shore. Some paddlers followed the leader, a guide from Kayak ...