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Maui, 2017

Maui Ocean Breezes

Plants and Critters

But the Gold Dust geckos aren't natives of the Hawai'ian Islands. They are an invasive species, native to Madagascar, that was introduced in eight exemplars by a student in 1974. Now they are ubiquitous. There are also other geckos, mostly stowaways on ships, that immigrated much, much longer ago. -F.