A Bristle-thighed Curlew moves forward to grab a breakfast snack.
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 143. Captions are on the photos. You can see more responses here.
Also posted for Becky’s Squares: Move Forward, Reconstruct, Renew, and/or are Burgeoning. See more responses here.
A burgeoning Indonesian Wax Ginger catches the light.Sometimes you have to move back after moving forward too boldly!A view of Maui from the lower slopes of Mauna Kea.Two Whitemouth Moray Eels in a tight spot.A White-lined Sphinx Moth caterpillar on the move.Passengers waiting for the first flight of the day from Kailua Kona Airport.
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.
A favorite photo of mine. The shadow of Mauna Kea stretching out over the clouds!
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 135. Captions are on the photos.
Sunrise at Upolu. I was looking to capture an eclipse, but got this instead.A horse and foal in a pasture off Saddle Road.A Metallic Skink skulking in a barren lava field.An endemic Omao in a kipuka off Saddle Road.Ho’okena Beach Park.
… They go together in this week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme of ‘Rainy Days.’ See more responses here.
Kahili Gingers illuminate a wet day in Kalōpā Forest Reserve.
There’s plenty of rain on the Big Island. Most falls on the wet east side, but the dry west side can get its share too. Hilo, on the wet side, averages around 140 inches of rain a year, and just to the west of Hilo is an area that gets more than 200 inches a year. In contrast, Kawaihae, on the Kohala coast, gets around 10 inches of rain annually, though I suspect last year was one of its wetter ones.
The highway to the Mauna Kea visitor center awash with rain.
Where I live, on the northern end of the island, we get around 50 inches of rain a year, but being on the shoulder of Kohala Mountain, that figure can change quickly going a mile east or west, or a mile up the hill or down toward the ocean.
Looking out the window as a passing shower dumps a load of rain.
Sunday Stills challenge theme this week and last week is ‘Your 2023 Year-in-Review.’ See more responses here. As before, I’m going with a favorite photo from each month of 2023, with a caption and link to the post the photo first appeared in. Last week, I posted favorites from January through June. This week, it’s July through December.
September: Mr. Chompers on the move (link).October: Wood you believe it (link)?November: Mauna Kea around sunrise (link).December: The boot’s not on the other foot (link).