Category Archives: Fish

The Numbers Game #97

A Goldring Surgeonfish and its shadow, or is it? It looks that way, but the shadow is a different fish!

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

Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Shadows. See more responses here.

A juvenile Threadfin Jack, one of my favorite fish.
Raindrops on shiny metal.
A shoal of Yellow Tangs having breakfast.
HIghfin Chubs cruising just below the water surface.
A young mourning gecko hides under a tire.
A Mourning Gecko choosing a bad hiding place.
A bee in the flower of a Cannonball Tree.

The Numbers Game #95

A black triggerfish showing colors when it is agitated or aroused
An aroused Black Triggerfish.

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

Northern Pintails.
A native I’iwi.
Divers in the waters off the Big Island of Hawaii.
Divers down!
The blooms of a yucca plant.
Yucca flowers.
Sailboats in Kawaihae Harbor.
The entrance to Emesine Lava Tube on the Powerline Trail off Saddle Road.
The entrance to Emesine Lava Tube on the Powerline Trail.

The Numbers Game #92

A green anole hangs onto a line.
A green anole on a washing line.

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

A shoal of young bluefin trevallies roams the shallows.
Bluefin Trevallies.
A goat with strange horns.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
Anthurium ‘Princess Alexia Jade.’
Philodendron Goeldii’s spiraling leaves.
A small praying mantis on an arm.
This little Praying Mantis landed on my arm, which is the closest I get to taking a selfie!

And rest

A whitetip reef shark resting in the waters off Hawaii

A Whitetip Reef Shark resting under a ledge off the black sand beach at Mauna Lani.

When I saw this scene, I thought the dark shape in front of the shark was a diver taking photos. It wasn’t until I got home, and examined the photo closely, that I realized it was just a rock!