Kauai Dive Map (Franko's)

Franko's Guide Map of Kauai), he didn't originally have the word “Dive” in the titles. It was simply “Franko's Map of Kauai, The Garden Isle” when he printed his first edition in 2000. The distinction is fairly obvious. This map, Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, is all about Kauai's fabulous underwater snorkeling and SCUBA diving. It is also a great road map, with the same road details that are on his Guide Map of Kauai. The difference is that this map has dozens of dive sites, plus a depiction of the tropical Hawaiian reef and its fish and other creatures, and the Guide Map has the things to see and do in Kauai. Franko's Dive Map of Kauai has artwork depicting over 80 of the most common Hawaiian reef creatures, including everybody's favorites, the Humuhumu Nukunuku Apua'a, which is Hawaii's State Fish, and the Honu, or green sea turtle. There are also butterflyfishes, trumpetfish, eagle rays, tang, Moorish idols, octopus, lobster, seastar, and dozens more. In fact, Franko's Kauai Dive Map features a tiny photo of the Na Pali Coast. You can't look at this map and fail to realize how beautiful Kauai and its underwater are. This is a perfect guide for Kauai diving. There is a reason that this dive map of Kauai was Franko's first Hawaiian Islands map. It is because he loves Kauai so much. In fact, there is a photo of a threadfin butterflyfish that he took on his very first snorkeling venture that he put on the map. If you turn the map over to Side 2 you will see it. Franko has found that Kauai's shallow dive spots, such as the Prince Kuhio Park area, Poipu, Kee Beach, Anini, Tunnels, and others, are probably better to dive with snorkel gear rather than SCUBA equipment. That is, of course, if you are a good snorkeler. The Hawaiian Islands are the most remote place on earth. That is, the Hawaiian Islands are further from any continent than any other islands in the world. Since Kauai is the furthest north and west of any of the main islands, that makes it the very most remote island in the world. Diving in Kauai therefore is diving in extraordinarily remote and pristine waters. Note that the magnificent Na Pali Coast has its share of diving experiences to offer as well. When tourists take one of Kauai's numerous and highly recommended tour boats to the Na Pali coast, the scenery is stunning. Then, when the boat is moored or anchored near some Na Pali Coast reef, the tourists don their snorkel gear and plunge into the most remote waters on earth. That is an amazing feeling. The fish life on the Na Pali coast is rich and fabulous, just like all around Kauai, but it just feels more special than any place else. If it wasn't for those tour boats, the Na Pali whitetip reef sharks, the saddleback butterflyfishes, and any number of other reef creatures would never know or care that humans exist. The Na Pali Coast visitors are also often treated to a show by spinner dolphins. They seem to like the fact that humans come exploring. It gives them a chance to show off their spinning and leaping. It is fun to watch tourists seeing dolphins for their first time as the boat cruises along. It makes the trip to Kauai that much better. When you study Franko's Dive Map of Kauai Side 1, your eye starts go around and around this nearly-circular island. Dive spot after dive spot is studied, and then you just have to look at all of the Hawaiian reef creatures on the map, which number something like 7 dozen. The captions describe dozens of snorkeling and SCUBA diving spots all around Kauai, from Poipu on the south to Tunnels Beach on the north, with details of the dive sites to invite you for your own underwater exploration. The map image of the Island of Kauai is generated by some fancy computer graphics, converting what we call “digital elevation models” into green shaded relief, so you can see the shores, the hills and the valleys exactly how they actually are. The roads were added by Franko and then colored gold, because Kauai is so beautiful and it requires beautiful colors to do it justice. Each of the island's main points of interest are denoted as well, although full descriptions of the things to see and do are reserved for Franko's Guide Map of Kauai. Franko's Dive Map of Kauai is for diving, snorkeling, kayaking, hiking, exploring, and is generally for anyone who loves Kauai, The Garden Isle. The ocean is depicted in beautiful turquoise colors all around Kauai, with descending colors representing the depths. Depth contours are from nautical charts of Kauai, as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). You can see just how deep the ocean quickly becomes as you go away from shore. The result of pure inspiration, Kauai looks like a beautiful emerald jewel sitting on the ocean blue. And it really does look just so beautiful. Going counter-clockwise around the island there are dive site descriptions. However, the number of sites to dive on the South Shore are so many that a separate detail is on Side 2 for the map to zoom in on the area. The same is true for the North Shore. The east shore is not as dense with dive spots, but it is the most populous area of Kauai, and thus it has a separate detail on Side 2 as well. Kayaking Kauai is another great sport and a wonderful activity for tourists. Since this watersport is also one of Franko's personal favorites, and since he's kayaked in Kauai, he's added some brief descriptions of Kauai's fantastic choice places to rent and paddle your kayak. Kayaking is a fantastic way to relax, exercise, and to see Kauai's gorgeous scenery. Therefore, Franko's Dive Map of Kauai describes the major kayaking sites around the Graden Island. There are five main sections to Side 2. The first is the North Shore, including Hanalei, the second is the East Shore, including Kapaa and Lihui, the third is the South shore, including Poipu and Port Allen, the fourth is the islet of Lehua, off of the north end of Niihau, and the fifth is the overall view of Kauai and Niihau. This view of Kauai and Niihau came out really great! The island of Niihau is seldom visited by outsiders, but the small straight between Niihau and the 0.9-mile wide, 702-foot high Lehua Island is often visited by tour boats full of snorkelers, typically doing a stop after having already been on a magnificent Na Pali Coast tour. The remoteness of Lehua is sort of scary, when it comes to jumping in the water. Sightings of tiger sharks occur there, and even a few whale sharks on rare occasion, and whitetip reef sharks commonly. The main attraction is pristine, clear water, with visibility almost always over 100 feet, and tons of reef fish on nice collections of rocky terrain and corals. Lehua, which is the fourth mentioned section of Side 2 of Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, has a lot of great and diverse dive sites. In fact one of the captions reads as follows:

NOTE: This area is considered by some to the BEST diving in Hawaii. However, it is not always accessible due to ocean and weather conditions. Best in Spring and Summer.

The North Shore has several dive sites and kayaking descriptions. Hanalei and the Bali Hai area are so-o-o-o beautiful. What words can describe it? It is just so magnificent. Kee Beach, at the very end of the road is another favorite snorkel spot. However, Franko is dubious about SCUBA diving at Kee Beach. For one thing, a huge 50' surf came in around 1998 or 1999 and changed things a lot. Much sand and silt filled in on top of the reef and the lagoon became much more shallow. It left the shallows good for snorkeling, but kind of ruined the former glorious SCUBA diving. Second, the currents outside the reef are so strong they can be treacherous. A diver could find himself drifting for miles and would never be able to get back. I'd hate to go for a delightful shore dive and simply disappear! In the winter months this area is prone to some extremely powerful surf. The same waves that make the Oahu North Shore the most famous surfing area in the world also crash into the Kauai North Shore and the Na Pali Coast. As for the Poipu-to-Port Allen area, or the South Shore on Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, this map zooms in on Kauai's most-dived areas, including its favorite shore dive at Koloa Landing, and favorite boat dive at Sheraton Caverns, plus Franko's favorite, first snorkeling spot at Prince Kuhio Park. The East Shore Detail on Franko's Dive Map of Kauai shows the area from Kapaa on the north to Nawiliwili Harbor on the south. It includes the airport at Lihue, plus the downtown of Kauai's government city, plus the area of Wailua and the Wailua River where tourists kayak up the river and visit fern grotto. There is a photo of a tour helicopter in front of a beautiful waterfall on the map. Kauai, if you didn't already hear, is fantastically beautiful. You may think you know how beautiful Kauai is, as Franko once did. Then one day you will get aboard a tour helicopter, possibly at Lihue airport, and you will take off for a one hour tour. If you have not seen Kauai from the air, you really don't understand just how incredibly beautiful it really is. That is more of a subject for Franko's Guide Map of Kauai. Meanwhile, there are only two significant dive spots on the East Shore of Kauai, mainly because this is the windward side of the island and the water is so often wavy and choppy. These sites are Lydgate Park and Akukini Landing. There is a lot of undersea life off Kauai's East Shore, but the advice of most is to dive somewhere else. The currents are also quite strong on this shore, so it is not just a casual, kids-jump-in-the-water kind of a place. It's a little too dangerous to take lightly. One of the greatest attractions on this map is not the beautiful islands, the golden roads, the ocean blues, or the dive site details, but it is the Hawaiian reef creatures guide on the face of the map. Franko's maps are waterproof, because they are printed on synthetic paper. A tourist discovered this a few years ago and a dive operator in Kauai reports that Franko's maps were being taken underwater by tourists to use for fish identification. However, the map of Kauai will still hold up come rain, wind, water, and about anything a customer might do to test its durability. Franko has been making waterproof maps since 1993, and now all kinds of companies do it. It was a good idea! * Please note that due to the nature of maps, the look and apperance may change without notice. You may receive a different looking map than what you see on this website. Two-sided, self-cover, waterproof folding map.">

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Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, The Garden Isle was Franko's very first map for the Hawaiian Islands. It is the first of what became four Hawaiian dive maps printed on waterproof, rip-proof plastic, which soon included Franko's Map of Oahu, The Gathering Place, Franko's Map of Maui, The Valley Isle, and then Franko's Map of Hawaii, The Big Island. However, since he didn't at that time know or think that he would one day be making things-to-see-and-do maps (such as Franko's Guide Map of Kauai), he didn't originally have the word “Dive” in the titles. It was simply “Franko's Map of Kauai, The Garden Isle” when he printed his first edition in 2000. The distinction is fairly obvious. This map, Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, is all about Kauai's fabulous underwater snorkeling and SCUBA diving. It is also a great road map, with the same road details that are on his Guide Map of Kauai. The difference is that this map has dozens of dive sites, plus a depiction of the tropical Hawaiian reef and its fish and other creatures, and the Guide Map has the things to see and do in Kauai.

Franko's Dive Map of Kauai has artwork depicting over 80 of the most common Hawaiian reef creatures, including everybody's favorites, the Humuhumu Nukunuku Apua'a, which is Hawaii's State Fish, and the Honu, or green sea turtle. There are also butterflyfishes, trumpetfish, eagle rays, tang, Moorish idols, octopus, lobster, seastar, and dozens more. In fact, Franko's Kauai Dive Map features a tiny photo of the Na Pali Coast.

You can't look at this map and fail to realize how beautiful Kauai and its underwater are. This is a perfect guide for Kauai diving. There is a reason that this dive map of Kauai was Franko's first Hawaiian Islands map. It is because he loves Kauai so much. In fact, there is a photo of a threadfin butterflyfish that he took on his very first snorkeling venture that he put on the map. If you turn the map over to Side 2 you will see it.

Franko has found that Kauai's shallow dive spots, such as the Prince Kuhio Park area, Poipu, Kee Beach, Anini, Tunnels, and others, are probably better to dive with snorkel gear rather than SCUBA equipment. That is, of course, if you are a good snorkeler.

The Hawaiian Islands are the most remote place on earth. That is, the Hawaiian Islands are further from any continent than any other islands in the world. Since Kauai is the furthest north and west of any of the main islands, that makes it the very most remote island in the world. Diving in Kauai therefore is diving in extraordinarily remote and pristine waters.

Note that the magnificent Na Pali Coast has its share of diving experiences to offer as well. When tourists take one of Kauai's numerous and highly recommended tour boats to the Na Pali coast, the scenery is stunning. Then, when the boat is moored or anchored near some Na Pali Coast reef, the tourists don their snorkel gear and plunge into the most remote waters on earth. That is an amazing feeling. The fish life on the Na Pali coast is rich and fabulous, just like all around Kauai, but it just feels more special than any place else. If it wasn't for those tour boats, the Na Pali whitetip reef sharks, the saddleback butterflyfishes, and any number of other reef creatures would never know or care that humans exist. The Na Pali Coast visitors are also often treated to a show by spinner dolphins. They seem to like the fact that humans come exploring. It gives them a chance to show off their spinning and leaping. It is fun to watch tourists seeing dolphins for their first time as the boat cruises along. It makes the trip to Kauai that much better.

When you study Franko's Dive Map of Kauai Side 1, your eye starts go around and around this nearly-circular island. Dive spot after dive spot is studied, and then you just have to look at all of the Hawaiian reef creatures on the map, which number something like 7 dozen. The captions describe dozens of snorkeling and SCUBA diving spots all around Kauai, from Poipu on the south to Tunnels Beach on the north, with details of the dive sites to invite you for your own underwater exploration.

The map image of the Island of Kauai is generated by some fancy computer graphics, converting what we call “digital elevation models” into green shaded relief, so you can see the shores, the hills and the valleys exactly how they actually are. The roads were added by Franko and then colored gold, because Kauai is so beautiful and it requires beautiful colors to do it justice. Each of the island's main points of interest are denoted as well, although full descriptions of the things to see and do are reserved for Franko's Guide Map of Kauai. Franko's Dive Map of Kauai is for diving, snorkeling, kayaking, hiking, exploring, and is generally for anyone who loves Kauai, The Garden Isle.

The ocean is depicted in beautiful turquoise colors all around Kauai, with descending colors representing the depths. Depth contours are from nautical charts of Kauai, as provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). You can see just how deep the ocean quickly becomes as you go away from shore. The result of pure inspiration, Kauai looks like a beautiful emerald jewel sitting on the ocean blue. And it really does look just so beautiful.

Going counter-clockwise around the island there are dive site descriptions. However, the number of sites to dive on the South Shore are so many that a separate detail is on Side 2 for the map to zoom in on the area. The same is true for the North Shore. The east shore is not as dense with dive spots, but it is the most populous area of Kauai, and thus it has a separate detail on Side 2 as well.

Kayaking Kauai is another great sport and a wonderful activity for tourists. Since this watersport is also one of Franko's personal favorites, and since he's kayaked in Kauai, he's added some brief descriptions of Kauai's fantastic choice places to rent and paddle your kayak. Kayaking is a fantastic way to relax, exercise, and to see Kauai's gorgeous scenery. Therefore, Franko's Dive Map of Kauai describes the major kayaking sites around the Graden Island.

There are five main sections to Side 2. The first is the North Shore, including Hanalei, the second is the East Shore, including Kapaa and Lihui, the third is the South shore, including Poipu and Port Allen, the fourth is the islet of Lehua, off of the north end of Niihau, and the fifth is the overall view of Kauai and Niihau. This view of Kauai and Niihau came out really great! The island of Niihau is seldom visited by outsiders, but the small straight between Niihau and the 0.9-mile wide, 702-foot high Lehua Island is often visited by tour boats full of snorkelers, typically doing a stop after having already been on a magnificent Na Pali Coast tour. The remoteness of Lehua is sort of scary, when it comes to jumping in the water. Sightings of tiger sharks occur there, and even a few whale sharks on rare occasion, and whitetip reef sharks commonly. The main attraction is pristine, clear water, with visibility almost always over 100 feet, and tons of reef fish on nice collections of rocky terrain and corals. Lehua, which is the fourth mentioned section of Side 2 of Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, has a lot of great and diverse dive sites. In fact one of the captions reads as follows:

NOTE: This area is considered by some to the BEST diving in Hawaii. However, it is not always accessible due to ocean and weather conditions. Best in Spring and Summer.

The North Shore has several dive sites and kayaking descriptions. Hanalei and the Bali Hai area are so-o-o-o beautiful. What words can describe it? It is just so magnificent. Kee Beach, at the very end of the road is another favorite snorkel spot. However, Franko is dubious about SCUBA diving at Kee Beach. For one thing, a huge 50' surf came in around 1998 or 1999 and changed things a lot. Much sand and silt filled in on top of the reef and the lagoon became much more shallow. It left the shallows good for snorkeling, but kind of ruined the former glorious SCUBA diving. Second, the currents outside the reef are so strong they can be treacherous. A diver could find himself drifting for miles and would never be able to get back. I'd hate to go for a delightful shore dive and simply disappear!

In the winter months this area is prone to some extremely powerful surf. The same waves that make the Oahu North Shore the most famous surfing area in the world also crash into the Kauai North Shore and the Na Pali Coast.

As for the Poipu-to-Port Allen area, or the South Shore on Franko's Dive Map of Kauai, this map zooms in on Kauai's most-dived areas, including its favorite shore dive at Koloa Landing, and favorite boat dive at Sheraton Caverns, plus Franko's favorite, first snorkeling spot at Prince Kuhio Park.

The East Shore Detail on Franko's Dive Map of Kauai shows the area from Kapaa on the north to Nawiliwili Harbor on the south. It includes the airport at Lihue, plus the downtown of Kauai's government city, plus the area of Wailua and the Wailua River where tourists kayak up the river and visit fern grotto. There is a photo of a tour helicopter in front of a beautiful waterfall on the map. Kauai, if you didn't already hear, is fantastically beautiful. You may think you know how beautiful Kauai is, as Franko once did. Then one day you will get aboard a tour helicopter, possibly at Lihue airport, and you will take off for a one hour tour. If you have not seen Kauai from the air, you really don't understand just how incredibly beautiful it really is. That is more of a subject for Franko's Guide Map of Kauai. Meanwhile, there are only two significant dive spots on the East Shore of Kauai, mainly because this is the windward side of the island and the water is so often wavy and choppy. These sites are Lydgate Park and Akukini Landing. There is a lot of undersea life off Kauai's East Shore, but the advice of most is to dive somewhere else. The currents are also quite strong on this shore, so it is not just a casual, kids-jump-in-the-water kind of a place. It's a little too dangerous to take lightly.

One of the greatest attractions on this map is not the beautiful islands, the golden roads, the ocean blues, or the dive site details, but it is the Hawaiian reef creatures guide on the face of the map. Franko's maps are waterproof, because they are printed on synthetic paper. A tourist discovered this a few years ago and a dive operator in Kauai reports that Franko's maps were being taken underwater by tourists to use for fish identification. However, the map of Kauai will still hold up come rain, wind, water, and about anything a customer might do to test its durability. Franko has been making waterproof maps since 1993, and now all kinds of companies do it. It was a good idea!

* Please note that due to the nature of maps, the look and apperance may change without notice.
You may receive a different looking map than what you see on this website.

Two-sided, self-cover, waterproof folding map.
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21” x 14” unfolded

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