Endangered Blind Spiders And Ancient Burials Spur Angst Over Luxury Condo Project… No one knows for certain what lies underground at a vacant parcel that’s being developed on Kauai.
Long before Kauai’s southeastern shore became a magnet for golf courses, hotels and luxury condominiums, molten lava flowing over roughly 6,000 acres built a vast underground world of caves and caverns.
These subterranean voids, only a small number of which are accessible, are the only known habitat for two native endangered species — the Kauai cave wolf spider, which has three teeth to eat its prey and no eyes, and the Kauai cave amphipod, a blind, shrimp-like crustacean about the size of a fingernail.
