Park in the visitor parking on the south side of the Waipoli Beach resort. Walk out to the beach path and head North until you are on the intertidal bench with a long wall of boulders on the town side (you will see some snails up in the rocks because the tide comes up that far!).
Details
Sand
Category
Kauaʻi
Location
22.060684, -159.318512
Organisms expected at this location
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_1-300x300.jpg)
Acanthophora spicifera
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_50-300x300.jpg)
Actinopyga varians
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_42-300x300.jpg)
Ahnfeltiopsis concinna
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_46-300x300.jpg)
Amansia glomerata
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_27-300x300.jpg)
Articulated Corallines
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_2-300x300.jpg)
Asparagopsis taxiformis
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_48-300x300.jpg)
Asteronema breviarticulatum
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_80-300x300.jpg)
Bleached Coral
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_3-300x300.jpg)
Bornetella sphaerica
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_167-300x300.jpg)
Brown Crust
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_30-300x300.jpg)
Caulerpa spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_4-300x300.jpg)
Cladophora or Cladophoropsis spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_79-300x300.jpg)
Coral spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_168-300x300.jpg)
Crustose Coralline Algae
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_7-300x300.jpg)
Cyanobacteria spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_59-300x300.jpg)
Dendropoma gregaria
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_8-300x300.jpg)
Dictyosphaeria spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_138-300x300.jpg)
Dictyosphaeria versluysii
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_10-300x300.jpg)
Dictyota spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_12-300x300.jpg)
Halimeda discoidea
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_52-300x300.jpg)
Holothuria atra
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_15-300x300.jpg)
Hypnea spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_125-300x300.jpg)
Laurencia dendroidea
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_130-300x300.jpg)
Laurencia mcdermidiae
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_16-300x300.jpg)
Laurencia spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_101-300x300.jpg)
Lyngbya majuscula
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_19-300x300.jpg)
Microdictyon setchellianum
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_21-300x300.jpg)
Padina spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_22-300x300.jpg)
Sargassum spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_26-300x300.jpg)
Spyridia filamentosa
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_49-300x300.jpg)
Turbinaria ornata
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_24-300x300.jpg)
Turf spp
![](https://coe.hawaii.edu/opihi/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/01/opihi_organism_id_166-300x300.jpg)
Ulva spp
Unknown Brown
Unknown Cyanobacteria
Unknown Fuzzy
Unknown Green
Unknown Red