Sunday, January 18, 2015

Kauai 2014: day 13

On my penultimate day of vacation, I made one final visit to Kilauea. Many pictures ensued, so I'll just jump right on in.

Some photos of red-footed boobies, starting with one of my favorites:

 




Looking right at me:


Gathering materials for their nests:




At least they won't lack for company:


Photos of a brown booby:




More whale action—I'm not sure if there's two or three whales in this particular image:


Not sure if there's two or three in this pic:



No real jumps on this particular day, but they were still pretty active:


 



I thought this one offered an interesting bit of perspective, as it has both a whale and an albatross in fairly close proximity:


A pair of nenes that whizzed by overhead:


A closer look at the lower of the two birds:


A later nene shot—no idea if these were the same two nenes, or a different pair:


A bunch of albatross pics:



Knowing I had a number of shots of various albatrosses flying against the sky, I focused on trying to get some with the ocean as the backdrop:






Doing a little grooming as it went by:



This one cracked me up, as this particular bird didn't seem too inclined to go for the streamlined look and tuck its feet in, making for a fun visual:



Kind of far away, but I still liked the silhouette: 



Coming right towards me:


And a couple of final closeups:



Checking out the muddy water spilling into the ocean, courtesy of all the rain we'd had:


Some photos of Beach Naupaka, a native Hawaiian plant with a variety of legends told about it. The first story I heard was during our Limahuli tour, and can be read here.  There's also another version to check out here.



And a couple of closeups:



A look at a monk seal relaxing on the rocky shore:


Not that it was easy to spot, given this is what the same area looked like to the unaided eye:


And finally, a few photos I took of a Hawaiian Coot working the edges of the Hanalei River, taken as we waited our turn at one of the one-way bridges:




2 comments:

  1. Hi. Just going through your Kauai photos. Beautiful! Your parents don't happen to rent out their place, do they? That view!

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  2. Hi Kristin. My parents are actually renters themselves; they do so through these folks: http://www.kauaivacationrentals.com/

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