Trail to Gillin’s Beach, Kaua’i

Trail to Gillin’s Beach, Kaua’i

Trail to Gillin’s Beach, Kaua’i

Gillin’s Beach, Kaua’i

Caroline

Caroline

Caroline

Caroline

If you go down Poipu Road, past the Hyatt, past the golf course, you’ll get to a gravel road. Drive down the gravel road and when you get to the gate at the end of the road take a right. Keep going down this gravel road – trust me, it’s going to seem like you’re going the wrong way, but it will pay off. Pass the guard shack and when the road starts to go off to the left, park and look for the trail. Follow the trail down to the ocean, you’ll be able to hear the surf. At the end of the trail is a totally vacant beach, especially if you go in the morning. Caroline and I went to this beach for a few hours one morning when everyone else was golfing at Puakea and we only saw a few people the entire time. And they didn’t stick around. We were the only people that we could see looking either way.

A few days later in the afternoon we went back with Dallas and there were quite a few more people, but still way less crowded than most of the south shore beaches. Most tourists start to go down the gravel road and they go and go and go and at some point freak out and think they’re doing the wrong thing and turn around and leave. Only natural, since the gravel road is unmarked and goes through private, cane property. I read in some travel info that the road is private .. but that the landowner is nice enough to let people on.. and that you should be super respectful, bring everything out that you bring in, etc, because at any point the landowner could say “hey, i don’t want all these people driving on my roads and across my land” and then there’d be no way to get to this beach.

The landowner.. who is it, you ask? None other than Kaua’i native, Steve Case. Yes, THAT Steve Case.

The only signs of civilization on this beach are the house that’s built on it. When you come out of the trail from the road, walk to the right and you’ll come upon it. I don’t know who lives there, but I wanted to evict them and take it over, for sure.

After the London bombings, the Kaua’i buses were put on high terror alert.