We spent Saturday night in Kaaawa, and walked the beach again early this morning.

This panorama shows an area of erosion caused by the past several weeks of big surf along the norths shore that wraps around to this part of the island. This section is just past the restrooms at Kaaawa Beach Park.

And the surf also undermined another section of Kamehameha Highway yesterday, closing the lane closest to the ocean. They started contra flowing traffic in that area last night, and it was still down to one lane this morning. Climate change and sea level rise appear to be hard at work.

Click on the panorama to view a larger version.

And click here to see more of this morning’s photos (by the way, I forgot my camera as we left our house Saturday afternoon, so today’s photos were all taken with my iPhone).