Creating an Ad

I have to design an ad for the Hilo Tribune Herald's special Merry Monarch edition. Cosette, Tuko, Gail and I will be showing work appealing to the massive swarm of hula fanatics that will grace our hometown next month. I scoured my files for relevant imagery and came up with these two design ideas. I think we are going to run the second one, which shows a detail from the Pride of Aloha murals. Can you tell I did a little photoshop in one corner, to hide some guys that were in the water pulling in a hukilau net?