Waimea Valley

All three declined medical treatment.

Marinel Middle Schoolers took their learning outside this classroom this week at Waimea Valley.

About 140 students spent the day helping around the visitor center, working on gardening projects and getting a closer look at Hawaii's environment.

Teachers say for some students it was their first time visiting the valley or doing hands-on work like pulling weeds and working in the dirt.

Uluwehi and Secret Falls remains closed.

Only the Waimea Valley section of Pu'ukapele Forest Reserve is open and must be accessed from the bottom of the canyon.

Hunting Unit F below Koke'e Road and Waimea Canyon Drive is open, but you should not pass the barricade.

And as many on Kauai tried to recover from the storm, a farm on the island's west side is trying to help out.

We just, you know, kind of like zoom in and zoom out.

If I had to choose between spending a few hours at Dole or putting that time towards say like Waimea Valley, I'd hands down would choose Waimea Valley.

So my verdict On Dole is reconsider it.

Don't automatically skip it.

That gets thrown around a lot out there too, is like finding authentic luau's.

That gets thrown around a lot without much explanation.

Really, I think a better question isn't are luau's tourist traps? I think it's, is this particular luau worth one evening of my trip? Some of the ones that I would recommend checking out is Mauka Warriors, Chiefs Luau, and Toa Luau that is in Waimea Valley.

Now, some of the places I would still do that are considered tourist traps, and some of you voted that you should skip these, but I still think you should do them because apparently anything popular with visitors can qualify it.

We have some very good first responders, in our resilient communities.

Waimea Valley, people may have forgotten, but Waimea Valley had a rock slide a few years ago.

That's another community that was isolated for a while.

And because this storm system is gonna pass south and then head up north and hopefully stay west, we're always concerned about our west side of Kauai and Niihau.