After spending what felt like hours pacing through rubbish filled sand and thinning crowds of sun tanners, the view I had flown thousands of miles to see, finally came. The first moments were a classic golden sky, so I took a few pictures before resettling away from the water's edge to enjoy my California adventure. But slowly, and somehow all at once, the whole sky transformed into brilliant orange-pink and I near sprinted into the water to absorb the view and captured this perfect moment.