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Road to Haleakala National Park, Maui, August 2008. Unfortunately, only had point and shoot camera at that time.
Maui, Hawai'i, USA
3/1981
moved to scan some old slides (unfortunately most Ekatchromes quite faded) from Maui
silversword, Argyroxiphum sandwicense, growing with nene bush, Comprosma ernodeodes (coffee family). We never saw both together on the big island. The silverswords and 2 other genera evolved from a tarweed, probably from California. (Its estimated that 1 plant from outside the Hawaiian Islands reaches them and becomes established every 20,000 years or so.) Seems like great example of convergent evolution with similar fuzzy, high elevation plants, e.g. Espledetia in South America (as seen in Kricher’s book).
I caught this one early this morning between the islands of Maui and Lanai. Unfortunately I was very far away. Even with a 300mm lens I had to crop like crazy, so it's not particularly sharp. But since it's not too often one sees a humpback whale entirely out of the water, I figure it's worth it.
At first I though it was a calf, but most of them aren't strong or skilled enough to execute a maneuver like this. My guess is that it's a one year-old. But maybe there's a humpback expert that can tell us.