Salt Pond Beach Park - Kauai

Salt Pond Beach Park is named for the Hawaiian salt pans the park borders. Salt Pond offers excellent swimming and snorkeling.Visitors to Kauai often overlook Salt Pond Beach Park, which is both a shame and a blessing.Salt Pond Beach Park has everything you need for a leisurely day at the beach: washrooms, picnic tables, pavilions, a long sandy beach and a lifeguard.Unlike the carefully "neutered" palms that surround Kauai resorts the Salt Pond palms are usually laden with coconuts.Heed the "Beware of Falling Coconuts" sign and don't sit under the palm trees: a fractured skull takes all the fun out of a Kauai vacation.