This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Bicycles and Biking.’ See more responses here. Yesterday, the Hawaii Ironman 70.3 race took place on the island so I went out to take photos of the cyclists as they went to and from Hawi.
The day was a hot and sunny with moderate trade winds, which meant the ride to Hawi was uphill and into the wind. The reward was turning around and zipping downhill with the wind at their backs.
This Cabbage Butterfly was perfectly happy foraging on an Ilima flower.
A close up of one of the inter-island barges that visit Kawaihae twice a week. It reminds me of one of those puzzle cubes.
Lahuipua’a Fishpond is the largest of several fishponds in Kalāhuipua’a Historical Park, on the grounds of Mauna Lani Resort. These ponds were where fish were raised for feeding the Hawaiian ali’i (royalty). The ponds are still used for raising fish in the traditional manner.
A lot of people on the Big Island live off the grid, sometimes by choice, often because those services aren’t available. Larger urban areas like Hilo and Kailua Kona have decent options, but the more rural the area, the less that’s available. Where I live, there’s public power and water, but no sewer system.
Because of this, catchment water tanks are a common sight, especially on the east side of the island, where there’s more rainfall. This one was in Volcano Village at a vacation rental. Generally, catchment water is used for everything except human consumption. Some homes install systems to purify catchment water to make it drinkable. Otherwise, drinking water is delivered by tanker or can be obtained by filling bottles at public water spigots located around the island.
The idea of The Numbers Game is to enter a number into the search bar of your computer and then post a selection of the photos that turn up. This week’s number is 743. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.
I saw this school of Heller’s Barracudas yesterday, in a place where I’ve previously seen them, which is probably their regular daytime resting spot. It’s an area I don’t go to nearly as often as I used to, which probably explains why I haven’t seen any for a long time.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Babies.’ See more responses here.
This hen and chick caught my eye because other birds were trying to harass the chick and mom was having no truck with that. She was running this way and that seeing off the aggressors. Given that this was the only chick with her, chances are she’d already lost some from this brood, and was in no mood to take chances.
By the time I got my camera out, things had settled down. This was no doubt a relief to the chick as it had been struggling to keep up with all the running about!
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