20 crates arrive from Brasil. The concrete on the left is a glimpse of the path that will be clad with stone.- Quartzite is an especially hard stone, so dense it does not give a foothold to molds and fungi like softer stones do.
- Offloaded onto the asphalt west of Iraivan.
- It made it all that way—9,000 miles by ship—with no breakage.
- Each crate will cover 45 linear feet of the Garden Path.
- It’s a big project and will take about two months to install, depending on the weather.
We sometimes kid that projects always take less time, effort and money than expected. Of course, only those who never completed a big project believe it. This Garden Path has been many years in the making. The final step, of many, is to install half-inch-thick quartzite onto the recently poured 900-foot-long, 8-foot-wide concrete path.
It took about four months for the stone to reach Kauai, and that allows Alfredo to begin the installation tomorrow. You will meet him in future TAKA posts. This project is also significant because it is the last large construction project at Iraivan.
Jai to our Beloved Gurudeva! Jai to our Light-filled Paramparai! Jai to Iraivan’s Grace-giving Mahalingesvara!