My camera can no longer zoom, but the macro lense seems to still be working fine. I’m uploading fullsized versions of most of these photos with thumbnails in case anyone wants to see individual lizard-scales or bug-veins.
Someone at the hotel in Hilo captured this frog and stuck him in a ziplock bag, hence the blurry photo. Note that the text, above, is 12-point. That’s one small frog!
The house in Puako is conveniently equipped with two models of geckos for daytime and nighttime bug control. The colorless nocturnal lizards adopt the standard ‘hold still and no one can see me’ strategy when I try to take pictures (of course, it’s hard to arrange proper lighting), but the day geckos (these are ‘gold dust,’ an exotic species from Madagascar) seem more accustomed to being visible and tend to scurry out of view. These last two pictures, at least, are probably worth zooming in on.
