Tag Archives: Mauna Kea

The Numbers Game #58

Lava from Kilauea Volcano’s Pu’u O’o vent enters the ocean as if from a firehose.
The fire hose of lava entering the sea from Kilauea Volcano in 2017. 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 179. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A Fireweed Control Moth.
An endangered Palila.
The mural on the side of Hawi Post Office.
A school of mackerel scads, or Opelus being hunted by a rainbow runner off Hawaii
A Rainbow Runner chases a school of Opelu.
A breaking wave in Hawaii
Breaking wave incoming!
Keck 1 and 2 telescopes atop Mauna Kea.

Now you see it …

The exterior of the Caltech Submilimeter Observatory before it was decommissioned and removed from Mauna Kea, Hawaii

The exterior of the Caltech Submilimeter Observatory atop Mauna Kea is chock full of triangles, squares, hexagons, curves, lines, etc. You could check it out, except that it’s invisible! Well, it is now, because it was decommissioned in 2015, and last year was dismantled and removed.

Posted for Becky’s Squares: Geometric. See more responses here.

Looking back at 2024 – Part 1

A Feather-legged fly on a Tree Heliotrope in Hawaii
January: A Feather-legged Fly (Trichopoda pennipes) on a Tree Heliotrope (link).

Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and next week is ‘Your 2024 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As usual, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2024, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. This week’s post is for January through June. See the rest of the year next week.

A Ring-billed gull in Hawaii
February: A Ring-billed Gull struts at ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay (link).
A woman walks on the beach at Kohanaiki Park in Hawaii
March: A woman walks the beach at Kohanaiki Beach Park (link).
Tiki torches burn against a backdrop of palm trees in Hawaii
April: Tiki torches at Mauna Kea Resort (link).
A Dwarf Moray Eel in the waters off Hawaii
May: A Dwarf Moray Eel (link).
Long-spined Urchins in Hawaii
June: A pair of Long-spined Urchins in Kawaihae Harbor (link).

The Numbers Game #49

Kiawe trees and Muana Kea telescopes silhouetted against an early morning sky
A view of telescopes on Mauna Kea from Mahukona.

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 170. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

A lion statue with a air of sunglasses
A cool lion at The Hilton.
A firefighting helicopter drops water on a brush fire in Hawaii
A fire helicopter dropping water on a brush fire hot spot.
Three cats resting in Hawaii
Hard working cats!
A Sonoran Carpenter Bee clambers through agave attenuata flowers
A Sonoran Carpenter Bee on an Agave Attenuata.
A couple performs on the beach at sunset in Hawaii
As The Pretenders once sang, ‘I got to have some of your attention.’
The beach at ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay in Hawaii
ʻAnaehoʻomalu Bay beach, more commonly known as A Bay.

The Numbers Game #36

Starlit early morning at Hapuna.

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 157. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.

Snow on Mauna Kea.
You’re going to die!
The old Kona Village buildings, now restored and open again.
Nene and gosling.
Bad sand: Raking bunkers at Hualalai.
Good sand: A beach at Hualalai.