I arrived a few days early on the big island of Hawaii, for the conference of the Society for the neural control of movement. Probably not surprisingly, for a European, there's plenty of exotic wildlife to observe. Unfortunately, I don't have the right equipment for taking pictures of small creatures, so these crude attempts will have to do as a teaser of how much fun we're having here and what kind of animals we've seen so far. If anybody knows the species of these animals, please leave a message in the comments section:



We saw this amazing spider at the southernmost point of the USA.



Sorry for this slightly blurry picture of the most remarkably colored spider so far. Any ida what species this is?



This bird was almost as yellow as the fish we saw snorkeling at Two Step.



This cute little copper-headed lizard fled from us at the boiling pots.

I'll try to post more photos as our trip continues.