Hard to beat seeing a big Manta Ray coming straight towards me.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme, guest hosted by Cathy at Between the Lines is ‘Your Favorite Places.’ See more responses here.
The ocean is one of my favorite places. I love snorkeling and every swim is different, the conditions and the things I see. Here’s a sample. Captions on the photos.
A cute little Scarface Blenny.It’s Christmas year-round for this Christmas Wrasse.It’s the lady who wears the pearls on a Pearl Wrasse.This Collector Urchin looks happy, so don’t step on it.A Mauve Stinger Jellyfish is lovely to look at but best not to touch.Eels can bite, but this Peppered Moray Eel was just passing by.A shoal of tiny Hawaiian Silversides.A variety of reef fish often shoal together.It’s always nice to bump into a Hawaiian Green Turtle, sometimes almost literally.And it’s a special treat when Spinner Dolphins whistle by.
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.
L&L Barbecue in Kapaau.Tzatziki resting at Pana’ewa Zoo in Hilo.Wild Turkeys.A bee in a Cannonball Tree flower.Shadows on the beach.A bench on Pu’u Wa’awa’a with a view of Hualali.
Where’s the shadow? It’s Lahaina noon! Original post 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 220. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Shadows. See more responses here.
Great Frigatebirds on the wing.A Fiery Skipper butterfly on a Tree Heliotrope.A bee approaching an agave flower.Rainbow over a tsunami siren.A Snowflake Eel playing peekaboo.Spencer Beach Park at Kawaihae.
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 211. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
The Kohala Welcome Center under a full moon.Zebra Doves grooming.A Flowery Flounder swimming.Whitemouth Moray Eel.Horses by the sea.
This is the smallest Whitemouth Moray Eel I’ve seen here. It was in a hole in the rock high up in the water so I could get quite close. I’ve taken a lot of eel photos over the years and I thought, even as I took these photos, it would be ironic if this little eel shot out and was the first one to bite me. Happily, it remained where it was, next to a Red Pencil Urchin, which gives a sense of scale.
Cushion stars look like their namesake and are often just as colorful.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘In the Swim.’ See more responses here. These photos are from my swim two days ago.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Simply Red. See more responses here.
Top left: This Ember Parrotfish was passing over a school of Convict Tangs.
Top right: A Palenose Parrotfish caught the light, which really brought out its colors.
Bottom: I often see Finescale Triggerfishes, but rarely get decent photos as they seem to shimmer away like ghosts. These three were juveniles, in shallow water, and curious, as younger fish often are.
Top left: Last year, I posted (here) about a Peppered Moray Eel swimming towards me and then rearing up when it saw me. This one, probably the same eel, repeated the performance.
Top right: I hadn’t seen a lobster in a long time and then saw two on this day. This one is a Tufted Spiny Lobster.
Bottom: I spotted this Snowflake Eel just a few feet before reaching the spot where I get out of the water. It was poking around looking for food and, fortunately, did not disappear under a rock as eels often do.
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 188. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Sunset off Kohala.Lesser Grass Blue Butterflies.Vireya Rhododendron flowers.Orchid Onc. Tsuiki Magueritte.A Snowflake Moray Eel.A lava breakout on a 2016 Kilauea lava flow. The couple on the right hadn’t yet noticed it. Original post here.