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The Numbers Game #54

A view of the 10th hole at Hapuna golf course in Hawaii
A view of the 10th hole at Hapuna Golf Course.

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

Vegetation has reclaimed a section of the original 1969 fissure of the Mauna Ulu eruption of 1969.
Tenacious plants grow in a lava flow.
A cigarfish and pinktail triggerfish add color to a shoal of surgeonfish.
A Cigar Wrasse in a school of Whitebar Surgeonfishes.
A view of Kohala Mountain from the trail up Pu’u WaaWaa.
Wiliwili tree flowers in Hawaii
A bee on a Wiliwili flower.
A four-humped stink bug (Brochymena quadripustulata) in Hawaii
A Four-humped Stink Bug.
A sign for the Banana Leaf Coffee & Tea shop in Hawi, Hawaii
The sign for the Banana Leaf Cafe in Hawi. It never opened!

Looking back at 2024 – Part 1

A Feather-legged fly on a Tree Heliotrope in Hawaii
January: A Feather-legged Fly (Trichopoda pennipes) on a Tree Heliotrope (link).

Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As usual, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week’s post is for January through June. See the rest of the year next week.

A Ring-billed gull in Hawaii
February: A Ring-billed Gull struts at ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay (link).
A woman walks on the beach at Kohanaiki Park in Hawaii
March: A woman walks the beach at Kohanaiki Beach Park (link).
Tiki torches burn against a backdrop of palm trees in Hawaii
April: Tiki torches at Mauna Kea Resort (link).
A Dwarf Moray Eel in the waters off Hawaii
May: A Dwarf Moray Eel (link).
Long-spined Urchins in Hawaii
June: A pair of Long-spined Urchins in Kawaihae Harbor (link).

The Numbers Game #53

A Black-crowned night heron struggles o get out of an algae covered pond
A Black-crowned Night Heron in a spot of bother in a pond at Kawaihae.

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

A Lesser Brown Scorpion in Hawaii
A lively Lesser Brown Scorpion.
A passion vine butterfly on a tasselflower
A Passion-vine Butterfly getting to grips with a tasselflower.
A white-tailed tropicbird flying over North Kohala, Hawaii
A White-tailed Tropicbird.
Two Kona Brewing Company beer taps
Beer taps.
Footsteps mark the way at Kaulana Manu Nature Trail in Hawaii
Just so you don’t get lost at Kaulana Manu Nature Trail.
The breakwater at Kawaihae, Hawaii
The breakwater at Kawaihae appears to lead the way to Maui.

No metal

A Metallic skink crosses a road in Hawaii
A Rhyncholaeliocattleya Shingfong Gold Gem 'Golden Gem' orchid in Hawaii

This month’s Sunday Stills color challenge theme is ‘Metallic.’ See more responses here.

The top photo shows a Metallic Skink (Lampropholis delicata), which is also known as Delicate Skink, Garden Skink, Rainbow Skink, and less-flatteringly, Plague Skink. This one was crossing a road, luckily a lightly-traveled one.

The second photo is an orchid with the catchy name of Rhyncholaeliocattleya Shingfong Gold Gem ‘Golden Gem.’

The third photo is shoal of small, silvery fish, which I think are the aptly named Hawaiian Silversides.

Hawaiian Silversides in the waters off Hawaii