ocr: IPATIIS RIN RATIN T IPAVIL Kauai, the oldest island in the chain, emerged from the seas of the Pacific tens of millions of years ago. Through a series of comparatively sedate eruptions, the shield volcano surfaced and became a steep, immense mountain. Kauai remains the most rural of the Hawaiian Islands, and most closely meets our expectations of what a romantic tropical island should look like: verdant valleys, fields of sugarcane and taro, ancient heiau sites, steep green cliffs, streaming waterfalls, and rumors of lost valleys and small, legendary peoples. The center: of the island is domin ...
