There’s often things left behind on the coast. This was a stray slippah at Mahukona.
Surf and slippah
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It’s white, it’s bright
This hen at Mahukona looked remarkably clean and bright for a stray.
Under the rainbow
A boat putters along the North Kohala coast, framed by a low rainbow.
Rainbow at Mahukona
Seems like I see a rainbow or two half the time I go swimming. Hawaii is not called the rainbow state for nothing!
I need a drink
Wasps gather at the watering hole, a large depression in a rock at Mahukona, that people fill with fresh water for the birds.
Wreckage
Two views of the engine, prop shaft, and propeller of the SS Kauai, an old wooden steamship, which sank in 1913 in Mahukona harbor.
What’s all the flap about?
Another of the roosters at Mahukona.
Killer
This is the resident cat at Mahukona Beach Park. The rock he’s standing beside has a natural bowl at the top and people fill it with water for the birds. I call the cat Killer because, when he sees a bird go for a drink, he races out, stations himself at the base of it, and then leaps up trying to snag a victim.
A couple of mornings ago, I saw him leap from this spot and miss his quarry, but sometimes he’s successful. Feathers in the bowl attest to that. The birds here are not native species, so he’s not contributing to their decline, though that’s not the case elsewhere on the island.
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