Fallen Tree

This morning as they began their pre-dawn meditation, the monks heard a loud cracking noise that seemed to be quite nearby. Had a banyan branch fallen on Kadavul Temple? Did the wiliwili tree come down? That's what it sounded like. Well, it would have to wait until after the morning meditation to be investigated. What had sounded so close was actually the giant albizia tree that was growing next to the waterfall, some 600 feet away from the Guru Peedam. The 75-foot-tall tree had fallen with an amazing crash. The boon is that it has revealed a much better view of the Wailua River which it had obscured all of these years.

A view from the media studio

Albizia trees (regarded as a weed) are also known as \"widow-makers\" because of their quick growth and weak limbs which fall regularly. This one uprooted, as you can see the entire root ball above ground

This happened because the tree was growing right on the river rocks with no deep soil to support it.

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