The Sunset Thread

[finsider]

After a week of surfing from Isaac I went out for a sunset fishing session...the water was amazing and I didn't even care about catching anything.  A 6-7 foot hammerhead popped up right in front of me, their dorsal fins look huge out of the water.  A manatee also came by and checked me out. Just a great evening overall. I was about 1/4 mile out when the sun went down...no green flash though. Not bad pictures from the iphone.

[SoCalSupper]

Friends house on Tortolla.

[SUPerLEO]

Lana'i island from lahaina the day before we paddle to Molokai on oc6

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[surfniels]

2 sunset shots from a sweet session the other day.. Have got a ton of go pro material with this magic ligth, just need time to look at all of it..
Actually this is sunrise

and this sunset

[paddlenorcal]

The valley has awesome sunsets too....just gotta know where to go to see them.

[Boludo]

1st pic at Honl's on Big Island.
2nd pic just north of Kona, getting ready for night dive.

[SUPerLEO]

Hilo sunset paddle sesh

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[SUP Sports ®]

There's been a number of great photo threads on the Zone over the years...kinda surprised that this one has been collecting dust...everybody needs more sunsets in their lives...

Here's the back story on this one...

We had an epic camping/surfing/anniversary trip at Jalama where we were blessed with oily glass conditions with near perfect, uncrowded surf in the afternoon...
Complete lack of wind is extremely rare this time of year for this area...we used to try and schedule wave sailing contests in late May here...

My wifey, Deb, had been watching a mother and her adult autistic son playing in the water…she's a Special Ed. teacher and autism specialist...etc...
I walked past them on my way up to our viewpoint where she had been shooting...and, snapped these shots...a weak front moving down the coast provided the ingredients for a tasty caramel colored sunset...

There were also a couple of pretty cool...and, talented short boarders out that I was sharing waves with...made for a memorable Memorial holiday week...

[stoneaxe]

I'm going to have to make friends with some of the folks down the street....they get both sunrise and sunsets from their backyards.....

[seadart]

Jalama is one of California's great treasures,  and far enough away from populated areas it's still a great place to get away from the crowds.  I have some friends who like like to get together there every winter,  seems like the waves in December  are always really pumping,  scary big surf, and lots of wind too, but amazing rides.  Have not seen any SUPs there when it's big, but have not been for a couple of winters.

[surfinJ]

Winter saturation.

[Beasho]

Mavericks on a Flat day meaning 4 to 5 ft.  With my daughter, she has caught the bug.

PS:  This is a single video frame from a GoPro Session  @ 4K 30 frames per second.  Stunning quality. 

[SUP Sports ®]

Winter saturation.

That's magical...we get sunsets like those here in California come late fall...

[SUP Sports ®]

Jalama is one of California's great treasures,  and far enough away from populated areas it's still a great place to get away from the crowds.  I have some friends who like like to get together there every winter,  seems like the waves in December  are always really pumping,  scary big surf, and lots of wind too, but amazing rides.  Have not seen any SUPs there when it's big, but have not been for a couple of winters.

Aloha seadart...
The "J" is definitely in my blood...I have over 4 decades of driving that two lane country road to surf, windsurf, and SUP surf there...it would make it much harder to live here without it...

Read this morning that they launched an interceptor missile from VAFB yesterday that hit a target missile fired from Kwajalein...

Probably going to be more of these missile launches from there, since Vandenberg is part of the GMD...has 4 of the 36 operational missile interceptors in the system...which to us means that the park gets evacuated at every scheduled launch attempt...the cost of freedom...$40 billion worth...

Here's another sunset shot from there...

One of the reasons that you may not have seen SUPs  when it's big at Jalama...is that we have 100 other spots that are firing...point breaks and reefs = more rides...minus the arse-whupping it will administer...plus, it doesn't hold ginormous surf very well...the rips get too dangerous...has to be clean and light wind with the right tides...but, there are a few chargers willing to take the beat downs...I pick my days...;-)

[laszlo]

Never saw this thread before. Thanks Warren for pointing it out. Here are a few sunset shots my wife took of me at County Line a few years ago. She has no photography background at all, but these came out pretty nice. I did do some post processing on them in Lightroom, but nothing extreme, it was all there in the camera.

By the way, we call County Line the poor man's Jalama, on big winter days.