Kauai

This unfinished page contains text from either the 2003 or 2005 print version of Encyclopedia of Surfing. An updated version, with more photos, is coming soon.

Rain-saturated Kauai is Hawaii's oldest and northernmost island. Long regarded as one of surfing's most localized areas, with some breaks virtually off-limits to visitors, Kauai has since the early '90s also become known as home to some of the world's most progressive and exciting surfers. Isolated somewhat from the rest of the Hawaiian island chain, Kauai's roughly circular shoreline is open to...

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