Two flowery flounders don’t exactly stand out on a sand and rubble sea floor, but I’m sure you can spot them.
Abstracts: Flowery flounders
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Abstracts: Spiral foliage
The leaves of what I think is philodendron goeldii spiral upward in a distinctive way.
Signs: Donkey crossings
A few miles north of Kona Airport is a stretch of highway where these signs can be seen – the written warning in the foreground and a handy image in background for those who don’t know what a donkey looks like. Not that they’re going to find out here. There are no donkeys.
The signs hark back to when there were a number of wild donkeys roaming the island and this was, apparently a place where they crossed the road on a regular basis. But donkeys crossing a major road travelled by many speeding vehicles is not a tale that ends well, for the donkey or the vehicle. So the donkeys were all rounded up and put out to pasture, as it were, in domestic situations. Only the signs remain.
Except … I’ve been told that not all of them were captured. Unaccountable braying has been heard, though no donkeys have been seen, but do you want to take that chance speeding past these signs only to see, too late …
Abstracts: Bloody hermit crab
I think this is a bloody hermit crab, but this was my only look at it. The greenish lump, from which the legs protrude, is not a shell but a lump of rock or old coral.
Abstracts: Swimming pool
An array of lane dividers, pool markings and reflections at the local swimming pool in Kapaau.
Abstracts: Yellowhead moray eel
At one of my regular snorkel spots, there’s a place where a small whitemouth eel had taken up residence. I saw it there several times, head sticking out from a hole in the rock, flashing its white mouth. Then one day it was gone, but there was clearly something else in there. It looked like another eel, but I only saw a smooth patch of skin, it was curled in there so tightly.
Recently though, I saw that the creature had turned around and, in the small opening, part of its head could be seen, revealing it to be a small yellowhead moray eel. In the photo, the eel’s eye peers out from its lair, which is surrounded by rock covered with different-colored growths.
Signs: Blind man driving
I was driving home from work when I slowed to a halt behind a van waiting in line at a junction. My attention was immediately drawn to the line above. It was only then that I took in the rest of the vehicle and saw how apropos the line was.
Abstracts: Tiny stick insect
This is easily the smallest stick insect I’ve seen here. I noticed it on a window screen and it was no wider than a single square of the screen and not very long either.
Graham's Island 