Do you like some risk with your tropical vacation? Then head to Kauai to experience this dangerous, yet beautiful, tide pool. Just don't go in winter.

The waves here – some of the longest in ... It's also home to one of the best-known beaches in Hawaii, Punalu'u Black Sand Beach. Part of its popularity is the striking beauty of the black ...

Waves splash onto an Olowalu stretch ... Both experts say shore hardening could spell the end of Hawaii’s beaches. They also say if the shifting sand is preserved and allowed to act as a natural ...

Chip Fletcher, a professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and vice ... he explained. When waves or storms take away the sand nearest the waves, the dunes are able to replenish sand on ...

Sunbathers like the wide stretch of sand, while snorkelers revel in the ... but only in the summer; the waves in the winter are too dangerous. If you're in Lanai during the winter months, a ...

With majestic green mountains sloping down to crashing blue waves, Hawaii is the ultimate tropical ... ancient cloud forests and gorgeous black-sand beaches. The mountain range is geologically ...