You are out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
The wave are huge, and the currents powerful.
Here's some non-sugar-coated facts to help you keep returning to Eden, Kauai.
So, below are some key tips so you can have the time of your lives on this gorgeous Hawaiian Island.
Important Ocean Safety Tips:
Make sure to see KauaiExplorer.com for the Ocean Report every morning after 8 or 9 am, so you'll know what beaches that day, are safe to be close to or possibly enter.
Almost everyone who drowns or almost drowns ( and is rescued by a Lifeguard) was not wearing fins.
Fins. Rent' em. Wear' em.
Fins will save your life. Wear socks with them to prevent discomfort.
Make sure fins are tight so they can't get pulled off in a big wave.
Ocean Safety Tip 2:
About 20% of people who have drowned here on Kauai were not swimming.
They were either STANDING OR WALKING by the Ocean.
Big waves kill and injure lots of people, sweeping them off the rock shelf at Queens Bath,and at the rock shelf at Lumahai Nurses beach in the winter time of September to May.
( or anytime there are medium to big swells )
Do not walk along the rock shelf to Queens bath between September to May.
People die there regularly, get paralyzed for life, and many more have barely escaped death there.
Water Safety Tip 3
Tip: Do not use the swing at Kipu Falls. People are often getting very injured (weekly), paralyzed and some have died. Kipu Falls parking is also a high car break-in zone, so you may do best to leave the car unlocked.
Because so many visitors die at the Queens Bath coastline, here's some info
Ocean Safety Tip 4
Queens Bath in Princeville
During the months of September to May, do not walk along the rockshelf to get to Queens Bath in Princeville. (It's only maybe kind of safe to do during the summer months, depending on the ocean conditions of the day or hour.)
Whenever the ocean waves are medium or large, DO NOT even VENTURE on to the rock shelf! People are getting swept of the rock shelf and being killed and they are not even in the
Queen's Bath.
A woman on a Tour on Aug. 3, 09 (a Summer month) almost lost her family there the week before I met her! The boy and father were sitting on the ledge of Queens bath pool where the water pours in from the ocean ( Noo!) and a big wave hurled in, tossing the terrified people into the pool. They are so lucky. The terrified two could have so easily been pulled out to their deaths when the wave resided.
Ocean Safety Tip 4 Queens Bath Details
If you are in Queen's bath ( on a flat ocean day) make sure to stay at the back of the pool away from the water's edge to avoid getting caught in a wave and carried out to the ocean to an awful end. You will notice that the sea comes in ( and pulls out) at two different entry points. One entry point is about 10 feet to the left of the main one.
Recently two visiting women were simply standing by the Queens Bath, close to the rock ledge, and were killed.
Make sure to watch the pool for about 20 minutes, far from the rock ledge to 'watch' the wave action. You may be surprised at how different the waves can be in just 20 minutes of time.
Don't leave anything in a car that you will miss. ( like your wallet or passport or camera)
Never leave luggage in the car ( and certainly not in shopping parking lots)
Vehicle Break-ins happen often at Kipu Falls, Secret beach, shopping mall parking lots
Never leave your car overnight at Kee beach
Ensure Happiness Tip 6 :
Never swim with your wedding ring, expensive ring, watches, earrings, or necklaces on.
It will likely come off in the ocean as the fingers get smaller, and the sunblock makes your finger slippery. Don't let it be you.
In the past 20 years of Kauai's Dutch Medford's work at finding people's lost jewelry for them, 97% of all the jewelry was lost in the water. Only 3% was lost on the beach.
Dutch suggests a brillant idea: Leave your expensive or sentimental jewelry at home, and substitute your wedding ring with a silver or gold wedding band for vacations.
Many newlyweds lose their rings. Don't wear the wedding ring into the water. The jewelry gets buried almost immediately by the sand's movements.
Contact Dutch Medford Home: 808-245-7927 or Cell: 808-651-5470 And / Or the wonderful Ken Davico 808-823-6462 ASAP if you have lost your jewelry.
More details at my Lost Jewelry and Kauai Theft Prevention Tips