This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Color Challenge: Rosy Red.’ See more responses here.
The top photo is a very red gate at the entrance to a newly fenced field. The grey cylinders are protection for something planted inside, possibly macadamia nut trees.
The middle photo shows a group of soldierfishes, mostly pearly soldierfishes, though one or two might be the very similar bigscale soldierfishes.
Finally, the third photo shows the brilliant blossoms of a royal poinciana tree.
Here, the sun goes down off the North Kohala coast.
Posted in response to Becky’s January Squares challenge theme of ‘Up.’ See more responses here.
I was going to run photos from my archives for this post, but then last Sunday saw a large northwest swell hit the islands. This is the time of year for such conditions, which generate huge waves on the north coasts of Oahu, Maui, and Kauai, and draw big wave surfers from around the world.
The other Hawaiian islands shelter the Big Island from most of these swells, but if their direction is more northerly or westerly, then we get our share of good-sized waves crashing ashore. Sunday was one such day.
These photos were taken along the North Kohala shore at Upolu. I went down onto the rocks to get some eye-level photos and had to scramble a couple of times when I saw outsize swells rolling in. In the bottom right square is a feature I call Guard Dog Rock because of its profile. On this occasion it could be called Lifeguard Dog Rock, but you’re still on your own if you go in the water.
Posted in response to Becky’s January Squares challenge theme of ‘Up.’ See more responses here.
Let’s start the new year with the sun coming up behind the Kohala Mountains and a Happy New Year to all.
Posted in response to Becky’s January Squares challenge theme of ‘Up.’ See more responses here.
Looking down from the Kohala Mountain Road, the lush, green pastureland of the hillside contrasts with the dry, brown landscape of the South Kohala coast.
This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Texture.’ See more responses here.
We had a lot of rain here last week, not tropical downpours, but steady, continuous rain. Along the coast, this turned parts of the dirt road into mud baths. Areas to be avoided, right? Not if you’re a mudder, someone for whom heavy rain is an excuse, a calling even, to drive their 4×4 trucks to the area and carve figure eights into the morass.
The top photo shows an area where this activity is particularly popular. The original grassless patch was about half the size of that in the photo. For walkers, it’s not quite so inviting. It’s easy to lose footing in the slick, squishy mud. And if the rain continues, this mud will wash down into the ocean affecting coastal habitat for fish and other marine life.
Fast forward past a couple of days of sunnier weather and the ground is very different. Most of the mud has dried. Those spatters sprayed around the edges of the mud bath are now nubbly, crunchy lumps in the grass. Anyone driving or walking in this area will crush those lumps into dust and when the wind blows, as it does here most of the time, that dust will blow into the ocean, etc., etc..
But it might rain again before it all blows away, except … well, you get the picture.
This shell necklace was draped over the sign at King Kamehameha’s birthplace on the North Kohala coast. It was probably left there as an offering, a not unusual occurrence at such sites.
Surf pounds the North Kohala shore while a rainbow forms farther out over the water.
Posted in response to Becky’s October Squares challenge theme of ‘Kind.’ See more responses here.
