Salt Pond Beach Park Campground:

Salt Pond Beach Park is a place where the swimming is usually safe year around. Camping is allowed with a County permit. The crescent beach is partially protected by reef. A toddlers bathing pool is created by rocks that form a small lagoon. Swimming is good and there are tidepools to explore.

 It's also a great spot for Sunsets and Sunrise. The only beach in Kauai where you can see a Sunrise and a Sunset.

 West side of the beach. Real coconuts are up the tree.

An inviting place to relax and a good place to swim and snorkle. Hawaiian families have evaporated seawater in pans dug out of red soil to produce natural sea salt. The salt is bagged and used for cooking and for medicinal purposes. The right to mine salt from the ponds is passed down from generation to generation, and if you visit the park at the right time, you could see saltmakers working the ponds.

Just west of  the beach are man-made salt ponds. Hawaiians have been harvesting salt here for hundreds of  years . They dig shallow basins in the sand that collect seawater when the high tide comes in. When the seawater evaporates, the Hawaiians scrape off the salt crystals.

To get here, turn left just past the 17-mile market onto Lele Road, then right onto Lokolkai Rd; the beach is about a mile from the highway. There are facilities for camping, as well as restrooms, showers, covered picnic tables, and lifeguards

Salt Pond Beach Park is one of the best beaches in Kauai. Natural reefs break the waves making it a safe swimming beach. Water in the cove gets up to 10 feet deep making it good for swimming laps (four time across equals half a mile). Both ends of the cove are shallow and good for kids.

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Sunset at Salt Pond Camp Ground: Balintawak with Fred and Nicolas, Nelson to the far left, open of our tent's on the right.

Na Pali Trail: After an 8 hour hike. Nicolas, Jesse, Jason, Fred and Deric.

Hiking the Na Pali trail

Running up Waimea Canyon.