One very good reason to love California..

[yuiyoshida]

[Warpy]

1. Or parts of Cape Cod or the west coast of Florida

There are quite a few places that give you nice sunsets over water, with or without palm trees.

Sunrises here in the rift valley are so-so, there are tall mountains in the way. Sunsets over the West Mesa, however, are usually nothing short of spectacular, especially when a volcano has contributed a little stratospheric debris somewhere.

[Lordquinton]

3. None of those compare to a California sunset

*checks the group* Right? Right.

[Warpy]

4. Have you ever seen the fall colors in New England?

Desert sunsets here in NM more than make up for them.

[Lordquinton]

5. But none compare to a California sunset

Sitting on the beach in California, watching the last Ray's of the day fade beyond the horizon. Nothing can compare.

[TeamPooka]

19. word

[SunSeeker]

6. California has gorgeous desert sunsets AND fall colors AND beach sunsets.

We have it all. If one region of California is not to your liking, there is surely one region that is.

[PasadenaTrudy]

10. When I'm in ABQ

there's a little park I go to up in the Sandia Heights off of Tramway to watch the sunset. Amazing sunsets!

[Warpy]

11. Between the altitude and the clarity of the air, you just can't get them elsewhere

like you do here in the high desert.

[Tikki]

12. This a view of my local California beach town at Sunset..looking down from the hills....

surrounding.



We get sundowners, weather pattern, sometimes...an experience you will never forget.

Tikki

[SunSeeker]

13. I was just in Ventura yesterday - hit the happy hour at Ventiki!

[Tikki]

16. I know, I saw that Lounge recently...

I picked my Tikki user name after a surfer I went to HS with in Ventura County.


Tikki

[SunSeeker]

17. Very cool. California Street is one of the top 10 surf spots in the state, IMO.

Perfect point break, with waves stacked up one after another, giving you a nice long ride to shore.

[Brother Buzz]

14. Anything can happen during a sundowner

"There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge." - Raymond Chandler, Red Wind, 1938

[Tikki]

15. Actually it is a very all encompassing experience. Internets say it only happens....

in and around Santa Barbara, but just a bit down the Coast we experience
a similar pattern.

Not often; but if Santa Barbara has Sundowners more intense
than what I've experienced...then Whoa.

I just stood there on the beach watching the sunset and felt the wind and heat
rising quicker and quicker all around me. The cool Ocean breeze just disappears in one moment.


Tikki

Chandler is a grand read....

[TBA]

2. Dust from China

[SunSeeker]

7. Gorgeous shot, yuiyoshida.

[Zorro]

8. Beautiful

West coast sunsets are remarkable, including those along the west coast of Florida.

Florida sunsets are absolutely stunning, especially if there are storm clouds on the horizon to the west. Watching the remarkable interplay of brown and purple and red and other shades and colors is both inspiring and humbling -- I think it's a key reason why people retire there.

I'm fortunate enough to be able to spend time both here in California and in Florida.

[PasadenaTrudy]

9. Kauai sunsets aren't bad either!

I'm heading there on Thursday!

[flamingdem]

20. Yawn, I see that stuff every evening