Learn about the Hawaiian Archipelago, the Island's Ecosystems and it's Cultural History.

 

This 2.5 mile coastal walk begins just a few minutes after the 9:00 am Poipu Beach Park pickup. With interpretation and discussion, it takes about 4 hours to reach a beach cove where your delicious deli-lunch awaits you. After, there is plenty of time to swim and snorkel in the warm waters of Kawailoa Bay.
Discover history written in lava rock, and natural history treasures eroding out of ancient lithified sand dunes while on this leisurely south shore walk. You’ll experience blessings of island sun and refreshing Trade Winds as history unfolds before your eyes and at your feet. In addition to evidence of the stages of the island’s volcanic growth over the past 5 million years, you’ll see the record of numerous Pleistocene sea level changes over the past 350,000 years. Enter a sinkhole where unearthed fossil-filled sediments reveal a 10,000 year-old scenario of Mahaulepu’s native plants and animals, through fossil pollen, bones and more. See evidence of the impact by humans on the region over the past 1,000+ years. Plus, Green Sea Turtles, Spinner Dolphins, Monk Seals and Humpback Whales can be viewed along the coast most of the year.