Travel photo gallery

A surfer glides down the face of a wind blown wave at Sunset Beach on Oahu’s North Shore.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Tourists stand watch over the setting sun at Haleiwa Beach Park on Oahu’s North Shore.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

A mature pineapple ready for picking at the Dole Pineapple Plantation in central Oahu.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

Kayaker approaches one of the over-water pavilion docks on the island of Bora Bora.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

Guests enjoy balmy breezes on the palm-lined beach of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami, which is set across placid waters from the Brickell financial district.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)

A young boy takes dive into the waters of Hout Bay Harbour, South Africa. Hout Bay Harbour is a quaint fishing village where you can watch fisherman unload their catch from the day of eat in a restaurant near the harbor.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Koi fish in a pond on the dining patio at the Commodore Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

A couple kiss on a foot bridge that leads to an aviary and pool area behind The Cascades hotel in Sun City, South Africa.  (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands — Ko Phi Phi Don and Ko Phi Phi Leh — sit off the Andaman Coast, offshore from the town of Krabi.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

The translucent waters of Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands off the Andaman Coast.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

The moon sets at dawn in the backwater swamp of the Venice Marina in Southern Louisiana where derelict fishing boats dot the waterways.  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)