{"id":44,"date":"2004-11-14T17:07:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-07-26T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T08:11:02","slug":"life_with_jungle_chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2004\/11\/14\/life_with_jungle_chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Life with Jungle Chickens…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not being one to hang around on beaches for very long, I woke up early, packed up my stuff and headed up into Kokee State Park for a day of muddy hiking and exploring. I have to say that up until this point, I was not all that impressed with Kauai. I hadn’t really seen anything on Kauai that I hadn’t already seen on The Big Island. Kokee State Park was definitely different, and really quite spectacular. 4000 feet up in a rain forest, Kokee State Park had lots of nice hiking trails, a grand canyon, and a spectacular view out over The Kalalau Valley, where the Nā Pali Coast Trail ends up.<\/p>\n

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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Muddy Hiking Trail in Nā Pali Coast State Wilderness Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although the canyon wasn’t nearly as big as the Grand Canyon in Arizona, it was much greener and very beautiful. And while the region was known for its persistent rain, I happened to luck out and see the Nā Pali cliffs overlook with anything but a deep blue sky. This place even had really nice individual campsites, carved out of the rainforest undergrowth. The only problem I ran into was with the jungle chickens and roosters (known as Moa) that insisted on cock-a-doodle-doing all night long. The Moa were introduced by Polynesian visitors long ago and have been removed from all the other Hawaiian Islands but this one.<\/p>\n

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Waimea Canyon State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Waimea Canyon State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Waimea Canyon State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Waimea Canyon State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Waimea Canyon State Park, Island of Kauai, Hawai’i<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not being one to hang around on beaches for very long, I woke up early, packed up my stuff and headed up into Kokee State Park for a day of muddy hiking and exploring. I have to say that up until this point, I was not all that impressed with Kauai. I hadn’t really seen… Continue reading Life with Jungle Chickens…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,25,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","category-kauai-the-garden-island","category-united-states","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}