Day-11 – Day at the beach

Late last night I went out to try and get a picture of the Milky Way Galaxy, but again unsuccessful.  There is still a little too much light leakage here and will try some other time.  You can see Orion and Sisius (the bright star on the right).

We are going to spend the day at the beach instead of running around.  While we are on the beach there are a number of whales playing in the water.  Here one of them is lying on its side and has raised one of its pectoral fins.

The whale is either waving or is just raising one of its fins for reasons only know to this whale.  It held it up for a couple of minutes.

Yet another whale with its pectoral fin and half of its tail fluke is seen next to a small motor boat.  Boy they must be getting a good view of the escapades of the whale.

We decided to take a break from the whales to watch the waves.  There are some pretty big waves coming in.  There is no one around us body surfing or even wave running.  There are some further down the beach and maybe we’ll get a picture later.

I still think these flowers are pretty.  We’ve seen people from the hotel pull some of the flowers down and bag them.  I assume they will make leis with the flowers.

This whale is on its back with both pec fins up in the air.  Wow!

Oh, oh!  This is not going to end well.  And yes he was bulldozed over and had to hold onto his pants.

Now these are some big waves.  I should be out there body surfing.

This guy sliding on the water into the surf to catch the up wave so he can flip.  Here he is mid flip after catching the wave.

A whale tail flips next to a blow from another whale. 

It is now close to sunset and the sun is beginning to get closer to the horizon.  The clouds are really interesting at this time.

The catamaran finally comes into the frame where I wanted it.  Look at the size of the sun going down behind the island of Lanai!  I love this picture.

Carmen in front of the sun before it sets. 

Here is the final sunset picture for today.  The sun has gone down behind Lanai and you can see the interplay in the clouds.