FUN FACTS

Official color: purple.Official flower: Mokihana

Nickname: "The Garden Island"

Kauai is the legendary home of the Menehune, a mythical race of very small people who performed legendary feats of construction and engineering.

Kauai has the only navigable rivers in the state of Hawaii.

Kauai Coffee is the largest coffee plantation in the United States.

Kauai is the northernmost island in the Hawaiian chain, which is the most isolated inhabited land mass in the world.

Captain Cook made his first landing in the Hawaiian Islands at Waimea beach on Kauai.

Kauai grows more taro than any other island.

Some of the cliffs along the rugged Napali Coast reach heights of 2,500 feet.

Kauai is the only island without the mongoose.

Waimea Canyon is about one mile wide, 3,600 feet deep and 10 miles long.

Historic Kilauea Lighthouse has the world's largest clamshell lens.