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 205. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Brown Anole.Full Moon.On a guided hike at the Kahuku section of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.Heliconia Colgantea.Dwarf Date Palm.Clerodendrum Inerme.
There are two kinds of Spanish Dancer nudibranchs in Hawaii, the Yellowmargin Spanish Dancer and the Redmargin Spanish Dancer. Both lay egg coils that look like roses. The Yellowmargin’s coils are pink and the Redmargin’s are red.
Posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
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 204. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
A Cabbage Butterfly about to receive a visitor!An abandoned car that was finally set on fire.Rolling surf and dark clouds off the North Kohala coast.A Varicose Phyllidia sea slug.A Pacific Day Octopus caught in the open.A Spotted Eagle Ray passes below.
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 203. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Ambon Toby.Venus in the early morning sky.A catamaran cruising off the coast of North Kohala.An Io flies by.A Triton’s Trumpet eating a Cushion Star.Ominous weather over the Hawi WInd Farm.
Also known as the Wedgetail Triggerfish, this is Hawaii’s official state fish. The name is easier to pronounce than it looks and it’s not even the longest fish name here. That honor goes to the Lauwiliwilinukunukuʻoiʻoi, a name given to the two longnose butterflyfish species in Hawaii.
Posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Cushion stars look like their namesake and are often just as colorful.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘In the Swim.’ See more responses here. These photos are from my swim two days ago.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Top left: This Ember Parrotfish was passing over a school of Convict Tangs.
Top right: A Palenose Parrotfish caught the light, which really brought out its colors.
Bottom: I often see Finescale Triggerfishes, but rarely get decent photos as they seem to shimmer away like ghosts. These three were juveniles, in shallow water, and curious, as younger fish often are.
Top left: Last year, I posted (here) about a Peppered Moray Eel swimming towards me and then rearing up when it saw me. This one, probably the same eel, repeated the performance.
Top right: I hadn’t seen a lobster in a long time and then saw two on this day. This one is a Tufted Spiny Lobster.
Bottom: I spotted this Snowflake Eel just a few feet before reaching the spot where I get out of the water. It was poking around looking for food and, fortunately, did not disappear under a rock as eels often do.
An alien cloud over the saddle between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
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 200. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Hawaiian Garden SpiderTiny stick insect on a window screen.Tiny gecko on my computer screen!Vaccinium reticulatum.A hallelujah moment.A Scrawled Filefish catches the light just right.