Whale Soup with a Side of Monk Seal

The humpback whales are back in Hawaiian waters...!! Can hardly contain our glee at seeing those puffs of air coming up out of the ocean, and the sliver of black gliding smoothly through the water. The conditions have been absolutely perfect lately...flat seas, clear skies....we have been enjoying days and days of whale watching...
And another of our favorites...following the daily escapades of our Hawaiian Monk Seals....we find them snoozing on many of the beaches we haunt....here is Irma, on two separate days and on two separate beaches.


a sandpiper stopping for just a moment, before scurring off on its way...

and the handsome, gentle seaturtle...