Other Kauai Helicopter Waterfalls

There are many other Kauai Helicopter waterfalls (most if not all of which are publicly inaccessible) found on an aerial tour of the island. When you couple these waterfalls with an aerial view of the ruggedly beautiful Na Pali Coast and Waimea Canyon, you'll find it easier to justify the pain of shelling out hundreds of dollars per person for such a tour (much to the chagrin of locals who derisively call the helicopters the Kaua'i Mosquitoes.

I generally have mixed feelings about motorized tours such as this because of the noise and pollution they generate. However, there's no denying the beauty of the island you can experience through this method that you can't get any other way.

Besides the major waterfalls already highlighted in other pages on this website such as the Jurassic Falls, the Five Sisters Falls, Wai'alae Falls, and Pu'u Ka Ele Falls, we'll highlight the other waterfalls that we noticed in our experience.

Perhaps the most notable set of falls we noticed was found just beneath Mt Wai'ale'ale - the so-called wettest spot on earth. It was here that our tour flew into the caldera of the Wai'ale'ale Crater where we were surrounded by countless water grooves etched on the green and vertical 3000ft high walls. Unfortunately, it wasn't as wet as we had hoped so we had to settle for grooves on the walls instead of waterfalls filling in those grooves. At the back of the crater, we were able to see some waterfalls on the so-called Weeping Wall which usually would've had more waterfalls on its bare section.

Another area that might yield numerous falls was the Hanalei River Valley. Again on our tour, there were just a few of them tumbling along the valley walls (just barely) because it was unusually dry when we were there.

Likewise, there probably should've been countless waterfalls coming down the various wrinkles of the fluted cliffs of the Na Pali Coast as well as the dropoffs in Waimea Canyon.

There's simply too many waterfalls here and I'm sure you'll undoubtedly have varying experiences depending on the weather, tour, pilot, etc. So I'll just post some of the chopper pics we took and let them do the rest of the talking...

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