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With Hurricane Hone set to batter the Big Island and Tropical Storms Gilma and Hector threatening to follow, PBA’s best-laid plans for our annual school camp looked to be at risk. We alerted families we were carefully tracking the storms, called in favors with meteorologist friends, joked about praying to the Amida Buddha for special consideration, and waited during the August 24-25 weekend to see what would come.  

Nearly every year since the founding of the school, Pacific Buddhist Academy has held an annual all-school camp. In the first years, we did ropes courses at Camp Mokulēʻia, in years following, at Camp Timberline, one year at Erdman, and a long run of years at the Mālaekahana State Recreation Area past Laie. The past few years our camp has been held on the property of the Koolauloa Foundation. Only the pandemic was able to interrupt the unbroken run of school camps at PBA. 
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