We walked on the beach in Kaaawa this morning after an evening with good friends up mauka.

There’s a good deal of new erosion along the beach from Kaaawa Beach Park across in front of Kaaawa Elementary School.

But it looks like at least some of that sand has migrated just a little farther down the beach to the area in front of Kalae Oio Beach Park.

Here are two photos. The top was taken in February 2016. You can see that the sand has all been washed away, exposing the roots of the tree on the right of the photo. It appeared the future of that tree was in doubt.

But the bottom picture shows the same tree, now over on the left, as it appeared this morning. The sand has returned, and the roots are again covered.

So at least in this one small area, the migration of sand has temporarily reversed the impact of the ongoing erosion.

February 2016

July 2017