The Wailua River Floods its Banks

Several days ago the monastery witnessed a powerful lightening storm, which brought with it tremendous rains throughout the night. Many suggest this was the Wailua's largest surge in the last 50 or 100 years. By 2:00am the flooding river had broken the state river gauge and would soon remove trees and strip bare the the banks of plants and silt, leaving only rock. Though none of us saw it while it was at full hight, the massive instant landscaping was more than obvious the next morning. Thankfully it didn't quite reach our large banana patch!

On the left side of this photo you can easily see the level where the water reached. Notice the silt line below the green. That field of rocks was previously covered in plant life.

Above the waterfall is an empty spot where a huge tree used to be

Some of our monks venture down to look at the changes

This was that big tree we mentioned.

An ever-changing natural world

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