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Puʻu Poa Beach

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Yellow sand and shallow reef are the details the resident recalls at Puʻu Poa, on the Princeville side of Hanalei.

Local notes from a Kauai resident.

A local view

The hotel above the beach was his landmark. The sand and reef are the focus of his description of the shore below it.

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