Hawaii Photos and Wildlife Photography

Basking Green Turtles near Makena in Maui, Hawaii

anita — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:10:31 +0000

And then there were three.

The first time a crossed this tiny stony beach a huge boulder startled me because it began to move. It was a large green turtle calmly returning the to water. I quickly tried to dig out my little Canon Ixus camera, by which time it had virtually vanished from sight amongst the rocks and boulders in the shallow bay. About an hour later, on my return to the car I had to pass by the same little beach again, this time I looked ahead incase the green turtle had maybe returned. I couldn’t believe my eyes. There were now three turtles, fast asleep, resting just above the waters edge. Trying to pass them quietly didn’t even cause them to bat an eyelid. So I slowly crouched down infront of all three – as far back as the tiny beach would allow and snapped a few pictures.. What a precious moment. Best of all was that I could walk away without having even woken them.

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Puunene Sugar Mill on a cloudless Maui day

Site Owner — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 08:13:02 +0000

It was a wonderfully clear Maui day today. There was a gentle breeze but it wasn’t coming from the normal tradewinds direction. The West Maui Mountain horizon is usually cloudy, but todays wind direction must have blown all the clouds away. Passing by the Pu’unene sugar mill today the mountains seemed so close. So I parked in a side turning, dug out my little IXUS camera, and snapped it..

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Haleakala Crater, Maui – A fine winters day

anita — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 08:43:16 +0000

It was 50F at the summit and was t-shirt and shorts weather in the crater. One of the popular day hikes is a 12mile trail that starts at the summit (10,020ft), descends down sliding sands and goes through the crater, passing cinder cones, the silversword loop and Holua cabin and campsite at 6940ft, then it ascends up the Halemau’u trailhead also known as the switchbacks, over rainbow bridge, and ends at the carpark at 8000ft. Weather can change dramatically very quickly, so hikers are advised to prepare well.

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Maui spotted doves and dogs love the camera.

Site Owner — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:49:30 +0000

This spotted dove was posing on a wall of one of the many single lane bridges on the road to Hana, on Maui’s North Shore. They are very common on Maui, along with the smaller zebra doves. Often seen feeding on the roads causing approaching traffic to slow down because they are pretty slow in flying off .

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Maui Sunset and Moonrise

Site Owner — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:16:43 +0000

Even the Pueo (Hawaiian Owl) came along to check out the sunset..

And even the rising moon was worth getting the camera and tripod out for.

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