Kauai Travel Blog
We sent our DJI Spark drone over our favorite surf town of Hanalei, Kauai in early April 2019 for some eye-opening photos and videos. The photos can be found below, the videos are coming soon.
Hanalei is paradise on Earth, tucked in a verdant valley framed by tropical mountains, a crescent bay, a meandering stream and a winding river. The town’s main thoroughfare is lined with quaint shops and eateries, a green plantation-style church, an open-air elementary school, playing fields, fruit stands and food trucks. On the mauka (mountain) side of Hanalei are a patchwork of taro fields. Makai (toward the sea) is a neighborhood of beach houses, surf shacks and multi-million dollar beach-front estates set against the blue-green waters of Hanalei Bay.
Hanalei Drone Photos
You can see the Hanalei Elementary School in the upper-right of this photo. This part of Hanalei Beach is known as Pine Trees.
Photo taken from behind the Ching Young Village Shopping Center.
Looking west from the Ching Young Village Shopping Center.
Hanalei taro fields.
We didn’t realize there was a green space behind the shopping center until we looked at this photo.
Kalypso Restaurant is in the middle of this photo. Below the restaurant is the Ching Young Village Shopping Center.
The Hanalei River is visible in the distance.
Look closely in the middle of the photo to see the green Waioli Huiia Church.
