The Many Moods of Mount Waialeale
February 8, 2023About 40 years ago Gurudeva noticed that the mountain which dominates our Western view (and is the long-extinct central volcano of Kauai island) changed from day to day, sometimes spectacularly so. He asked the monks to begin collecting photos of what he called "The Many Moods of Mount Waialeale." The years passed and the mountain revealed its wet self, its sunset self, its rainbow self, its waterfalls self, its cloud-shrouded self. One by one these different mountains were captured. We will probably never print that fancy coffee table book, as that is so last millennium. But we do plan to put the images in a newly-designed Virtual Tour in 2023. Ahead of that, we offer over 150 photos and art that reveal the dance of light that Siva performs each day to entertain and amaze monks and visitors alike.
Timelapse:
This is the inside of the volcanic cauldron, with one side eroded away
The sky is on fire!
Did you know the top of the mountain is 17,000 feet from the ocean floor?
Such sunsets stop the monks in their tracks until Siva\
s show is over.'
Monks once counted 54 waterfalls on the sides of the mountain.
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