Category Archives: Activities

Waipi’o Valley view

A view across Waipi’o Valley from the road into the valley. This road has been closed to visitors for some time, because of rockfalls from the steep slopes above it. A project to improve the road recently finished its first phase, but it’s likely to be a few years before the road is opened to anyone other than residents, licensed tour operators, and native Hawaiians exercising traditional rights. Even then, it’s not clear what access will be permitted.

One thing this means is that the (strenuous) Muliwai Trail, into the next door Waimanu Valley, is currently closed and is likely to be so for some time, if it ever reopens. That trail can be seen (very faintly) making a zigzag up the steep slope on the far side of the valley.

A tiny Flowery Flounder

This is the smallest Flowery Flounder I’ve seen while snorkeling. It was probably about 3 inches long. The only reason I saw it was because it was moving for just a moment before it settled down.

If you can’t see it in the top photo, the cropped version should help.

Maui from the water

A view of Maui, seen from the water while snorkeling one day.

Coming up for air

An Hawaiian Green Turtle surfaces for air

When I was snorkeling a couple of days ago, I came across this green turtle coming up for air. It took a breath and then curled down into deeper waters at a leisurely pace, before disappearing under a ledge.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas …

A Christmas Wrasse n the waters off Hawaii

… Christmas Wrasse, that is, this one swimming past a ledge occupied by blue-black urchins.

The morning commute

Whitebar Surgeonfishes on the move in the morning

On a recent swim, I saw this shoal of fish, mostly comprising of Whitebar Surgeonfishes, heading off on its morning business.

I got the blues real good

A broken window in Hawaii — One of the broken windows in the next door house mentioned in yesterday’s post.

A blue blur — I was photographing monarch butterflies and this photo was one of them. Use your imagination.

The Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge theme is ‘Blue.’ See more responses here. After sorting through some photos, I found a cluster of abstract blues that I like so here they are.

Chainlink fencing over a blue tarp in Hawaii — Some chainlink fencing wrapped around a blue tarp covering something or other.

A blue light at an airport in Hawaii — A blue light at Upolu Airport, up close and personal

Blue panels and rivets on a helicopter in Hawaii — A blue light at Upolu Airport, up close and personal

Goatfishes congregate over a sandy bottom in Hawaii — Goatfishes swimming in blue-green water in the company of a bluer parrotfish

Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay

Two people fishing from a jetty in Kawaihae Harbor in Hawaii

There are always people fishing from this little jetty in Kawaihae Harbor, when I go by there in the early morning. I don’t know how the fishing is, but they must catch something, or perhaps they just enjoy the peaceful scene as much as I do.

Graham's Island

Life on the Big Island of Hawaii