Photo of the day 236

Sunset and Palm Trees, Captiva Island, Florida, 1992

Photograph by Raymond Gehman

A fuchsia sunset backdrops a stand of palm trees on Florida's Captiva Island. Captiva is one of four quiet barrier islands on the Gulf coast of Florida—Sanibel, North Captiva, and Cayo Costa are the others—renowned as havens for boating, fishing, and seashell-collecting.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Islands of the Shell Coast," November/December 1992, National Geographic Traveler magazine)