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22 minutes ago, extreme_tooth_decay said:

Christmas seems to be coming around about once a year these days.

 

Geez, Tim, just about as often as we're seeing you around, too. How the heck are you doing?

 

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you, too.

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19 hours ago, Origami said:

Geez, Tim, just about as often as we're seeing you around, too. How the heck are you doing?

 

Oh, and Merry Christmas to you, too.

 

I'm doing well, thanks.

 

I just got back from my annual Hawaii snorkeling trip.  It's amazing the quantity and variety of fish there.

 

I saw eels longer and bigger around than my arm, rays, octopus, dolphins, turtles, sharks, huge schools of yellow and lavendar tang...achilles, moorish idols, several types of boxfishes, even a huge school of porcupine puffers, I've never seen them in a school before...and tons of other fish.

 

I don't try to take underwater pics anymore, I just enjoy the fish, but here's a pic from last year's trip when I hiked up to an active lava flow.  If it looks like I'm in a lot of pain in this pic, that's because I am.  That stuff is super hot, it was burning me at that distance.

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Flowing rock. What a strange thing to see up close.

 

And a school of puffers. I've encountered them singly while diving/snorkeling, but  never schooling. 

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1 hour ago, TonyInVa said:

Funny. It always amazes me when finding the snail trap doors (I would really like to know the real name).

Operculum. 

(I had to search for it.)

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4 hours ago, Origami said:

And a school of puffers. I've encountered them singly while diving/snorkeling, but  never schooling. 

 

I've seen single porcupine puffers many times, but never a school.

 

There were at least 50, ranging in size from golf ball up to almost football.

 

I went back the next day and swam out to the same place...and they were still there.  It was right at the edge of a big drop off way out far from shore.

 

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I'm at Blackwater Falls State Park and there is a blizzard right now, which was not in the forecast.

 

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5 hours ago, extreme_tooth_decay said:

I went to the Dairy Godmother earlier today and had some frozen custard, which I hadn't planned to do.

 

LOL. 

 

I really wish we had a good snow for Xmas. I have this relative from FL here who has never been in snow.

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