My camera has a panorama feature that captures close to 180
degrees. It takes 20 images in strips and stitches them together in the camera.
Depressing the shutter, then sweeping the landscape by turning the camera created these images. The following are panoramas from this
last year starting with American Samoa and ending up in Molokai. The camera is a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX1,
which is not the latest version, but then neither am I. Sadie's Hotels in Pago Pago sells beautiful wide postcards from several of these images.
American Samoa
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| Fatu ma Futi |
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| Beach fales, Utelei |
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| Pago Pago Harbor from Mt. Alava |
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| Pola Island |
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| Vaitogi fale |
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| scattered showers, which is why Tutuila is so green! |
Sailing San Diego to La Paz, Baja, Mexico
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| Si Bon on the high seas |
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| Bahia de los Muertos |
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| Cemetery, Turtle Bay |
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| leaving Ballandra Bay |
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| dry lake, Los Frailes |
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| anchorage at Los Frailes |
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| sunset near La Paz |
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| calm overnight passage |
Kalaupapa Peninsula, Molokai, Hawaii
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| Kalaupapa lighthouse |
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| outskirts of town |
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| one of 26 switchbacks on the cliff trail |
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| backside Molokai from Kalawao |
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| Kalaupapa peninsula in the background |
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| Siloama Church, Kalawao |
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| St. Damien's grave next to St. Philomena |
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| St. Philomena Church, Kalawao |
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| view of the Kalaupapa peninsula from the top of the lighthouse |
topside Molokai scenes
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| rain forest road |
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| boardwalk lookout |
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| Humpback whale offshore Molokai |
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| Maunaloa rodeo |
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| empty stadium |
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| corral |
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| a year without rain |
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| hiking above the tree line |
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| deer country, far above Kaunakakai |
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| wild deer |
Thanks for looking. The wild places, the open ocean, trails not often traversed pull me to them. Six weeks ago I was having trouble catching my breath so I quit smoking and started hiking daily. Last week I was able to walk nine miles to the top of the mountain and back. Every sore muscle, every inch of sunburn and every stumble has been worth it. I hike with a friend or I might not make myself go. We are both over fifty and were out of shape when we started and now, we run part of the trail. Life is great! Thank you Sherry!!
