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 154. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
A Northern Mockingbird getting ready to eat.A Praying Mantis consumes a wasp.A Gold Dust Day Gecko snags a moth.
Two Nenes establish the pecking order (Original post here).
Shrapnel found on the ground near where I work.A cruise ship docked at Hilo.Your choice of sunglasses.
Two stores in Hawi not working out as neighbors (original story here).
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 153. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
A junction near Kawaihae. Original story here.SV Kwai in harbor.Arrows sprout on Kohala Mountain Road. Original story here.Papa looking relaxed.A Nothern Mockingbird looking intense.Two geckos looking perplexed.
The sign above the ABC Supply Company building in Kailua Kona. These letters always make me think of Elvis Costello’s song, Brilliant Mistake, which includes the lyrics: ‘She said that she was working for the ABC News. It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.’
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Red, White, & Blue.’ See more responses here.
Here’s my selection this week with captions on the photos.
A Ring-necked Pheasant.A Yellow-billed Cardinal ready to take a dip.Hawaii Life Flight helicopter training at Upolu Airport.It’s not too early, is it?St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in KapaauCanoe paddlers out on the blue Pacific.
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 149. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Scrawled Filefish.Flowery Flounder.Green Turtle.The Pride of America anchored off Kailua Kona.Two Nenes confront a mongoose.An old bomber which crashed in the Kohala Mountains. Original post here.
The old boat hoist at Mahukona has been replaced, though it’s not yet ready to handle boats apparently. But recently, two new signs appeared at the site.
The top one, advising swimmers to beware of boaters is OK, though it implies there are boaters out there, cruising the waters, searching for swimmers to run down. If those boaters exist, I’ve yet to encounter them.
The second sign was the one that caught my eye though. Beware of swimmers! What do they think we’re going to do? Bite a hole in the boat? Attach a mine? Reach a long arm over the side and drag the boater to a watery grave? I guess ‘Watch out for…’ was too many letters!
A calm morning with little wavelets and a view of Hualalai.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Water, Waterscapes and/or Water Safety.’ See more responses here. Captions on the photos.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Move Forward, Reconstruct, Renew, and/or are Burgeoning, because waves are always moving forward. See more responses here.
Time for a swim. Looks like a good morning for fishing too.Uh oh. Here comes a bigger wave.Best stay outside the surf line.They don’t look too big from up here.Still, the surfers will be happy.Ahhh. All is calm again.
Visiting Kailua Kona, it’s never hard to know if a cruise ship is in. They invariably are the largest thing in view, dwarfing any and all of the downtown buildings. On a recent visit, I got this photo from the Walmart parking lot (a solid contender for the Walmart with the best view in the world!).
It used to be that Wednesday was cruise ship day, but currently there are three or four ships a week stopping by. This one is the Europa 2, which is operated by Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. It carries up to 516 passengers, which means it is less crowded than most cruise ships.