Kauai's Na Pali Coast has some of the most amazing geology I've ever seen. The beach on the left is Kalalau and is accessible only by a brutal 11-mile, 4000-ft-gain and 4000-ft-loss hike. Raiatea and I backpacked there and spent three nights photographing the area. One day, we put our cameras in a dry bag and swam to Honopu, the beach on the right side of this photo. It's about 1 km (a bit over 1/2 mile) each way. There was a lot of surge (and white caps on the way back!), so it took us 35 minutes of hard swimming each way. I'll post photos from the ground in the coming weeks. Swimming from Kalalau or landing a boat are the only ways to reach Honopu--so few people go there that the beach had no footprints.

At the end of our trip, we hired a helicopter and saw the same spots from the air.

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