Call it a love-in for corals. Each June and July, just after the new moons, rice corals in the Waikiki Aquarium, the Maui Ocean Center and the ocean around Hawai'i hold a frenzy of reproduction. Trillions of eggs and sperm are released from the coral polyps.

Find out more about marine-life courtship and ecology and view the coral spawning 8-10 p.m. Thursday at the Waikiki Aquarium and 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday at the Maui Ocean Center. There will be refreshments.

Does that mean love is in the, er ... water? "The Waikiki Aquarium's rice corals have spawned regularly for many years; however, many of the other species on exhibit do not, so you never know what types of fascinating courtship rituals and reproductive displays you might get to witness along with the coral spawning," said aquarium director Andrew Rossiter.

www.waquarium.org, www.mauioceancenter.com.

— Chris Oliver

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

TEEN MAKES IT AROUND WORLD SOLO

California 17-year-old Zac Sunderland got home Thursday with a record-breaking title. The youngest person to sail around the world alone pulled into Los Angeles' Marina del Rey 13 months and two days after he left. "I'd do it again in a heartbeat," he said Monday on a port stop. "It's been an amazing year. Tons of fun."

— Associated Press