Sunset Beach beaches in California do not exactly mirror
the famed Sunset Beach of Hawaii. The California
Sunset Beach is beautiful and is appropriately named for
its spectacular views of the sun going down to the west.
In fact, as you stand at California's Sunset Beach to
watch the huge ball fade, usually splashing the sky and
sand with unbelievable shades of pink and orange, your
mind wanders to the distant lands where the sun still
shines such as Hawaii.
Californians love Hawaii and enjoy the daily nonstop
flights to the islands that usually take around 5 hours,
give or take a couple. California surfers who like
the California Sunset Beach sunsets and surfing also
enjoy the sunsets and surfing at Hawaii's Sunset Beach.
California's "Sunset" is a popular icon. Up the road
some 40 miles, Sunset Strip and Sunset Boulevard are a
way of life in Los Angeles, much as Sunset Beach in
Orange County has its fans. Sunset Boulevard is one of
the world's most famous streets. The name Sunset
Boulevard provides inspiration for songs, movies & TV
shows. The Eagles' top-selling album, Hotel
California, featured a photo of a Sunset Boulevard
hotel on its cover, the
Beverly
Hills Hotel.
Sunset
Beach in Orange County is known by celebs such as
Cameron Diaz who shops at the likes of Bill Anderson
Art Gallery. Diaz and many of the Hollywood crowd
who have expanded outward from Sunset Boulevard housing
and lifestyles have embraced places such as Sunset
Beach, the land of the Endless Sun.
Immortalized in a cult surfing movie that created the
mood and wave for the next generation of surfers, the
Bruce Brown movie classic epitomizes Sunset Beach.
There
are famous Sunset Beaches around the globe. Hawaii
sports one of the most popular. But this one-mile
stretch of coastline in Southern California is a gem not
be ignored.
Spectacular sunrises and sunsets are the trademark of
Orange County's Sunset Beach. In
the photograph above a young couple playfully enjoy the
fading light of a spectacular Sunset filling the sky
with yellow, orange, pink, purple and blue. Behind them
is a lifeguard tower in this county-operated beach that
sits between Huntington Beach, Surfside and Seal Beach.
Across the street is housing comprised of Sunset Island
and five manmade island for the Huntington Harbour.
Houses are located on the sand in Sunset Beach but do
not include boat docks like the houses across the street
in Huntington Beach enjoy.
To
catch a sunset in Sunset Beach, drive along Pacific
Coast Highway (1) and turn toward the ocean at one of
the numbered streets leading into the greenbelt parking
areas of Sunset Beach. From there you must walk along
one of the entry paths between houses that lead to the
beach. At sunset you'll see surfers, kite surfers,
sailors offshore, Long Beach to the north and Huntington
Beach Pier to the south.
