Category Archives: Series

Abstracts: Drying mud puddle

Out on a walk one day, I came across this mud puddle well into the process of drying. I like the soft, pale channels between the segments, which will soon dry into hard cracks. Those cracks and segments will be ground into dust by traffic – until it rains again.

Abstracts: Sand, sea and sun

A small cluster of whitebar surgeonfish pass over sandy ridges dappled by sunlight.

Signs: Muliwai trail advice

Words of wisdom and instructions for hikers at the start of the Muliwai Trail in Waipi’o Valley. I’m surprised no one has used a finger to scrawl ‘Wash me’ on the signs.

Abstracts: Lava dance

I posted here and here about recent trips to see lava entering the ocean from Kilauea Volcano’s Pu’u O’o vent. Not all my photos, taken on a rocking boat in a rolling ocean, turned out. But even the ones that didn’t provided, what I consider, some happy accidents such as this one of dancing lava.

Better Days: Nearly made it

This old boat has a good view of the nearby ocean, even if it didn’t quite get there.

Abstracts: Bubble machine

In the water, it’s wise to be aware of what waves and swell are doing. Caught unawares, it’s easy to get tumbled over rock and coral. But I like to get close enough to see fish sluicing back and forth, and also to see the waves crashing around the rocks leaving little whirlpools and storms of bubbles.