Sunset Beach Beaches - Sunset Beach California Sunsets   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.   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.