A year and a half ago I went to Cuba for vacation, at that time I didn't know how to make panoramic stitching, the two original shot were never meant to be stitch, actually I even walked few steps between both...causing heavy distortion in the beach and a lot of time for the waves to move.

This view is about 80 degrees wide and is made of 2 shots taken from my former point&shoot Sony W55 camera.

BTW I use Hugin, a free software-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_%28software%29