So I totally messed up tonight.  Here we are on Maui for crying out loud on the west side of the island in the Grand Wailea Resort, so you’d think a great sunset picture was a pretty safe bet!  Well it is if you don’t fall asleep on your bed after coming back from the pool all day!

Lisa pointed out that the sun was going down so I grabbed my camera and headed down to the beach.  On my way I could see the sun just going down and missed a beautiful sunset – what an idiot!  Fortunately, this is only day one so I have plenty of time to make amends and capture a few beautiful evenings.

So I had to ask myself, what should I post?  I was walking back to the hotel feeling pretty dejected and when I saw this scene.   The sun still had a little orange and yellow and the trees were silhouetted against the dark blue sky, and I thought, Palm Trees, that’s very “Hawaiian”.  So this is tonight’s posting (I know, very imaginative – but you try staying awake after 4 hours of a nine year old dunking you under water).

This is one of the walks from the hotel down to the beach.  The hotel is absolutely amazing and I’ll take some shots of the building and grounds over the next few days and post them too.  Clearly I can’t leave this as an afterthought and expect to get a great image in 5 minutes  at the end of the day – so much for paradise!

The Halo guys were having fun in the pool today, but they were blatantly ignoring the “no diving” rules.