ocr: Ancient seafarers came to Kauai around 500A.D.: from the Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, and other South Pacific slands. Around 1,100 A.D. another wave of oceanic adventurers crossed the Pacific in 80-foot, double-hulled, canoe-like vessels. In the 19th century, romantic newcomers to the islands dubbed Kauai the "Garden Isle. a