Category Archives: Animals

The Numbers Game #105

A Painted Lady Butterfly feeds on a kiawe flower
A Painter Lady Butterfly feeding on a Kiawe flower.

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 227. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Two donkeys in Hawaii
Two donkeys drying out after heavy rain.
Spinner Dolphins in the waters off Hawaii
Spinner Dolphins stop by.
Blue Goatfishes and other fish hunt fro prey in the waters off Hawaii
A variety of fishes in a hunting party.

The Numbers Game #104

Sea Monster
A sea monster lunging up? Actually, a Humpback Whale. The ‘lower jaw’ is a fin!

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 226. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Large Orange Sulphur Butterfly on a hibiscus.
A tug and barge enters Kawaihae Harbor in Hawaii
A tug, a barge and a helicopter entering Kawaihae harbor.
An Aloha greeting is mown into the grass at Upolu Airport
A small plane landing at Upolu is greeted with ALOHA! Not so much these days as it’s been so dry there’s not enough grass to mow!

The Numbers Game #103

A cloud forms over the site of the eruption on Mauna Loa , Hawaii
The 2022 eruption at Mauna Loa produced its own weather in the form of this cloud.

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 225. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A white water lily at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Garden
Water Lillies at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.
Ants and ladybugs on a passion vine leaf
Lady Beetles and ants on a Passionflower leaf.
A Hawaiian Noddy skims over the ocean
An Hawaiian Noddy skims the waves off the North Kohala coast.
Blue lights illuminate a ceiling
Waiting room lighting!
An A’ama Crab at the aptly named Crab Cove at Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve & Garden.
An A’ama Crab clings to a rock.
An orange Hibiscus just starting to fade.

The Numbers Game #102

Sunset over Kohala
North Kohala sunset.

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 224. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A gecko sparkles in the sunlight
A gold dust day gecko at eye level
A gallery of Gold Dust Day Geckos.
Assassin Bug.
Monarch Butterfly.
A memorial on the Kohala coast.
Memorial on the coast with Maui in the background.

Turtles at peace

A Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle on the beach at Kaloko in Hawaii
Resting at Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park.

This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Peace.’ See more responses here. Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles come ashore to rest and get a bit of peace. Humans are supposed to stay at least 10 feet away, preferably more.

A Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle on the beach in Hawaii
On the beach.
A Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle on the rocks at Kiholo, Hawaii
On the rocks.
A Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle on the beach at Kiholo, Hawaii
On the beach at Kiholo.