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 141. Captions are on the photos.
Strong winds whip up whitecaps in Kawaihae harbor.
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 139. Captions are on the photos.
A Black-crowned Night Heron snaffles a Tilapia. Original post here.Bees and their honeycomb inside the wall of a house. Original story here.The firehose of lava at Kilauea Volcano in 2017.Hawaiian Stilts in flight.There’s always one who’s got to get your attention, as evidenced by these Northern Pintails.
Halemaʻumaʻu crater sits within the larger Kilauea calera.
Jagger Museum sits on the center of the ridge above Halemaʻumaʻu crater. This view gives an idea of the scale.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Earth Day.’ See more responses here.
My brother has been visiting from England and, a few days ago, we went down to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park to check out the scene. The volcano’s last eruption ended in September 2023, and it’s been mostly quiet since then.
We arrived to find the volcano socked in with clouds, but the next morning the skies had lifted and we got some great views. We started at Uēkahuna, a viewing area next door to the Jaggar Museum. The viewing area used to be at the museum, but that was badly damaged during Kilauea’s 2018 eruption and is currently in the process of being removed.
Halemaʻumaʻu crater is a pit crater within the larger Kilauea caldera. By the end of that 2018 eruption, the crater floor had collapsed into a deep pit. A small lake formed at the bottom, but that was boiled away and covered in the next eruption. Subsequent eruptions have continued this process of filling the collapsed pit. I hadn’t been down to view this area for quite a while and I was surprised at how much had been filled in. The whole floor was easily visible from the many viewpoints around the caldera, and while there’s no active lava to be seen, there’s plenty of steam rising.
Volcanic cones, from the last eruption, on the floor of the crater.
Steam rises from cracks in the walls of Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
Ironically, yesterday I got an email from the U.S. Geological Survey announcing that ‘Increased seismicity over the past three weeks, indicates heightened activity. Updates will be provided daily while at a heightened state of unrest.’ In other words, watch this space!
For more information about Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, go to nps.gov/havo/.
A view of Halemaʻumaʻu crater. On the left, the flat area with a white line on it, is a section of Crater Rim Drive that slid, intact, into the crater!
A favorite photo of mine. The shadow of Mauna Kea stretching out over the clouds!
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 135. Captions are on the photos.
Sunrise at Upolu. I was looking to capture an eclipse, but got this instead.A horse and foal in a pasture off Saddle Road.A Metallic Skink skulking in a barren lava field.An endemic Omao in a kipuka off Saddle Road.Ho’okena Beach Park.
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 133. Captions are on the photos.
A Red-billed-Leiothrix calls out.A wild pig snacking on mangoes.A cow in conversation with a pair of cattle egrets.The Tahitian voyaging canoe Fa’afaite off Mahukona.An Ohia tree toughing it out in the lava on the Napau Trail.The old Wo On Store at Halawa.A Bougainvillea in a neighbor’s garden.
A view of Pu’u O’o vent, when it was erupting, from the Napau Trail in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
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 132.
A flying clown. That’s all the world needs!A grasshopper keeping watch.Two Banana Stalk Flies doing, well, you know what.A well balanced rock on the North Kohala coast.Couldn’t resist taking this one at my local post office. I can run this several times!
… They go together in this week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme of ‘Rainy Days.’ See more responses here.
Kahili Gingers illuminate a wet day in Kalōpā Forest Reserve.
There’s plenty of rain on the Big Island. Most falls on the wet east side, but the dry west side can get its share too. Hilo, on the wet side, averages around 140 inches of rain a year, and just to the west of Hilo is an area that gets more than 200 inches a year. In contrast, Kawaihae, on the Kohala coast, gets around 10 inches of rain annually, though I suspect last year was one of its wetter ones.
The highway to the Mauna Kea visitor center awash with rain.
Where I live, on the northern end of the island, we get around 50 inches of rain a year, but being on the shoulder of Kohala Mountain, that figure can change quickly going a mile east or west, or a mile up the hill or down toward the ocean.
Looking out the window as a passing shower dumps a load of rain.
Daybreak reveals onlookers gathered at the Jaggar Museum viewing point in April 2016 (Original post here).
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Iconic Places and Spaces.’ See more responses here.
I wasn’t sure what to post for this, but Kilauea is about as iconic as anything on the island, so I thought I’d post some photos from volcanic activity that I’ve seen since I moved here. Captions on the photos with a link to the original post.
Lava from the Pu’u O’o vent reaches the ocean in July 2016 (Original Post here).
A hike to the July 2016 flow revealed surreal scenes like this one (Original post here).
This fire hose of lava was a short-lived feature of the 2016 flow (original post here).
In April 2018, lava in Halema’uma’u Crater spilled onto the crater floor. (Original post here).