Our Top 12 Kauai Photos

Recently we set out on a mission to go through our thousands of Kauai photographs and pick out the creme de la creme of our finest photos.

We're not professional photographers or anything, but we have to admit we're pretty pleased with how these photos came out. It was a combination of knowing just enough about our camera equipment, good weather,and perhaps a bit of luck. OK, and maybe knowing a little about photo editing after the fact helped too. But more than anything we wanted photos that captured the REAL Kauai and weren't overly photo edited. So we tried to keep any editing to a bare minimum. Below we've posted our top photographs we've taken of Kauai. We loved these photos so much we even included them in our new Kauai Calendar.

This was a pretty tough challenge overall, even for us. Selecting the right combination of beaches, trails, sights, gardens and general landmarks was tough. There are so many beautiful places on Kauai; how do you narrow it to just 12 (now you know why we didn't select just 10)? Not included on this list are two honorable mentions; Hanalei Valley and the view atop Nounou Mountain (Sleeping Giant). We'll save those for a future posting. So below, our top dozen of Kauai - The Garden Isle. Enjoy!