The OED defines "sunset" as you would expect: "The setting of the sun at the end of the day; the time of this; the colored or illuminated sky associated with sunset . . . ."  The OED leavens this very dry definition with a literary example of usage, attributable to H.B. Stowe: "One of those intensely golden sunsets which kindles the . . . horizon into one blaze of glory." 

Maui days tend to end in remarkable sunsets that can accurately be said to "kindle" the horizon into "one blaze of glory."  Whether Harriet Beecher Stowe - who died in 1896 - ever saw a Maui sunset is to be doubted, but in she had lived in Florida, so she might have seen the sun sinking into the ocean from Florida's west coast.  In any event, "blaze of glory" aptly describes a Maui sunset.  Not every Maui day, of course; at a guess, only five out of seven.   

Before that final blaze, the sun moves slowly downward, brightly backlighting any intervening clouds, its brilliant white gradually moving down through the spectrum, through yellow, to orange, to red.

These photos were all taken near water's edge.  The camera was about 30 feet above sea level.  Some are panoramas, either vertical or horizontal, or both.

There will be a few more sunsets in the last post in this Maui series, soon.  In the meantime, here is the direct link to my Maui 2018 sunsets gallery.  https://www.zenfolio.com/bobeastaughimagery/p1006740882  All of the regular images can be printed big, and the panoramas much bigger.

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