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Lanikai Pillbox Trail

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We hiked Lanikai Pillbox Trail (Kailua, HI) on Wednesday (11/12) which was sunny and altogether an excellent time (perhaps the least scary hike of the trip). I spent a good while chasing butterflies (while someone else geocached) and since it was hot, these were very active and not into keeping still.

After getting back to the hotel, I noted that since Hawaii has only 18 butterfly species, it's pretty trivial to identify them. In any case, this is a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae).

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Gulf Fritillary (upper view)
Gulf Fritillary (partial underwing view)

Olomana Trail

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Today Monty and I hiked Olomana Trail (Kailua, Hawaii) to the first peak. It featured the steepest and scariest rock scrambling I've ever done, high up, and enormous amounts of thick slippery mud, low down. The rest of our party (Nathan, Noah, Nadia) went on to peaks two and three, and possibly have better pictures, but for now I bring you a picture of a random rock pile, and a picture of some red flowers that I may manage to look up. We saw a bird that I later identified as a red-billed leiothrix, on the way down.

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Rocks, with a Monty for scale
Red flowers (no, I don't know what kind)

Hello from Hawaii (Cameleon pictures)

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So I'm in Hawaii - tagging along while Monty attends the IETF. I've got lots to do, but if I wait until I can write the whole story, there just won't be any blogging. So for today, here's a chameleon I saw yesterday.

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Jackson's Chameleon (on hand, mouth open)
Jackson's Chameleon (on hand)
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