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Kauai is For Movie Buffs

The andHawaii.com Travel Ezine, dated 07/04/03

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Recent Island News	Volcanoes Park Growing
Title Article	Kauai is For Movie Buffs
Travel deals	various
Hawaiian Word	heahea
Hawaiian article	Big Island Travelogue
Featured Website	Bark Cloth Hawaii
Featured Links	various

Island News / My Comments

Volcanoes National Park to Grow
The National Park has just bought a huge swath of land from Kahuku Ranch.

Kauai is For Movie Buffs

The amount of movies made on Kauai is amazing - not to mention TV shows and commercials! Kauai has the perfect combination of green plains, large valleys, long, perfect beaches, incredible coastlines, and local towns and villages to have something for every show based in a tropical paradise.

A few of these shows are:

Jurassic Park 3

Baywatch-Hawaii

Six Days, Seven Nights

George of the Jungle

Dinosaurs

Fantasy Island

Mighty Joe Young

Outbreak

The Lost World

Jurrassic Park

Honeymoon in Vegas

Lord of the Flies

Lady in White

Throw Mama from the Train

The Thorn Birds

Uncommon Valor

Body Heat

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Acapulco Gold

King Kong

Lt Robinson Crusoe

Gilligans Island (pilot)

Blue Hawaii

Wackiest Ship in the Army

Forbidden Island

Jungle Heat

And that's not even all of them! If you are able to take a trip to Kauai keep an eye out for familiar sites or you could take a Kauai movie tour to visit these sites and be shown by a guide where exactly everything was filmed.

Incidentally - there is plenty of filming going on on the other islands too - the newest being Boarding House, North Shore on Oahu. WaterWorld was filmed of the Northern Coast of the Big Island and some of the new Planet of the Apes was filmed in Kalapana on an old lava flow. Plus, Hawaii 5-0, Magnum PI, and One West Waikiki were all mostly done on Oahu. Basically, the same weather, water, beaches, people, and activities that bring visitors back over and over again appear to draw Hollywood back just as often.

Have a great vacation! Lisa

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