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The Numbers Game #121

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The firehose of lava, in 2017, from Pu'u O'o vent at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The firehose of lava from Pu’u O’o vent during an eruption in 2017.

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

The top photo and the first gallery are photos that haven’t run on the blog before. I don’t know why I never ran the top one, though I had a lot of good photos to choose from that day.

Tropical foliage in Hawaii
Tropical foliage.
A Catatante Pacific Sunspots Orchid at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
A Catatante ‘Pacific Sunspots’ orchid at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden.
Tree trunks at Kalopa State Park in Hawaii
Tree trunks at Kalopa State Park.
Nishimura Bay on the Big Island, Hawaii
Nishimura Bay on the Kohala Coast.
View of Mauna Kea from Pu'u Wa'awa'a bench
A view of Mauna Kea from Hualalai.
Usually waves are seen on the water, but here at Waialea, the waves are light and sand below the water.
Dappled light on sandy ridges off the Kohala Coast.

Munchkin drivers needed

Reflections in a shiny Airstream trailer in Kawaihae Hawaii

In Kawaihae, there’s a very shiny Airstream trailer which houses Seabird Coffee. When I stopped to take photos of it, what caught my eye was that one rounded corner of the trailer did wonderful things to vehicles waiting for shipment elsewhere, my car (on the left), and a passing truck!

Posted for Bushboy’s Last on the Card. See more responses here.

On reflection

Reflections in a helmet visor

It’s been raining a lot lately and I was waiting for my pizza slices to be ready. What to do? There were two motorcycles parked in front of the pizza place, with helmets hanging from the handlebars. This one had a visor I liked, so I pulled my phone out and snapped a few images. I liked this one best, and yes, those are my feet. I left them in because I thought they look amusing and because they look a lot better in this photo than they do in real life!

The Numbers Game #117

A Whitemouth Moray Eel.

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

The L&L Hawaiian Barbecue restaurant in Kapaau at night
L&L Barbecue in Kapaau.
White Bengal tiger, Tzatziki, rests in the shade
Tzatziki resting at Pana’ewa Zoo in Hilo.
Wild Turkeys.
A bee in a cannonball tree flower in Hawaii
A bee in a Cannonball Tree flower.
Shadows on a beach in Hawaii
Shadows on the beach.
A View of Hualali from a bench on Pu'u Wa'awa'a, Hawaii
A bench on Pu’u Wa’awa’a with a view of Hualali.