Kīpuka. The places mass tourism left untouched.
Each tour is hand-built around your fitness, your interests, and what the weather is doing on the morning of. These are the doors currently open.
Door I.
The ridge you’ve seen on screen, on the route the locals keep quiet. A half-day climb up the back of Kaua‘i’s most photographed silhouette, ocean on one side, the green spine of the island on the other.
Inquire about Door I
Door III.
You sign an oath. Charlie drives you in. The waterfall has no pin on Google Maps. Wild ‘awapuhi ginger to bathe in, a pool with no crowd for a thousand years, and the quiet that the rest of the island doesn’t know.
Inquire about Door IIIGrandmother’s bloodline traces to Kalalau Valley on the Nāpali Coast. The hardest-reached valley in the Hawaiian Islands.
Kanaka maoli. Native Hawaiian. Raised on Kaua‘i, the mountains as a backyard, the streams as the first classroom.
Years with Hawai‘i’s DLNR before guiding full-time. Still volunteers stewardship on the land guests walk across. Every tour feeds back into protecting it.
Opens the back gates of the island to the few people he chooses to bring. Started getting called the Hawaiian Dundee somewhere along the way. The nickname stuck. The bush skills came first.
One group a day. Three days a week. Up to four people. Kīpuka.
“Safety first. Then the real Kaua‘i.”
Charlie
Once in a lifetime. Good for the soul.
Tripadvisor 5 ★
“Not your normal tour, and so much better.”
Viator reviewer
“Took us places no other tour can go.”
Tripadvisor reviewer
“Best thing to do on Kaua‘i. Do not miss your chance.”
Tripadvisor reviewer
When you’re ready
No form. No widget. Tell him when you’re on island and what you’re hoping for. He’ll write back.
charlie@hawaiiandundee.comMon · Wed · Fri · Anahola, Kaua‘i · Kīpuka