ʻOpaekaʻa
Falls is a waterfall located on the Wailua River in Wailua River State Park on
the eastern side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. It is a 151–foot waterfall
that flows over basalt from volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Below the
ridge down into the ravine through which the water falls can be seen the
vertical dikes of basalt that cut through the horizontal Koloa lava flows. The
name "ʻOpaekaʻa" means rolling shrimp, "ʻopae" being
Hawaiian for "shrimp," and "kaʻa" for "rolling".
It is not possible to climb down to where the
water falls into a pool. The trail has been blocked by a steel fence since 2006
when two women fell off an unofficial but well-publicized rocky path to the
pool. Two other hikers found their bodies 35 feet (11 m) away from the pool. Sources
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