Where we live, in the Sunset, the ocean is always just over your shoulder and the houses have Easter-egg colors.

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End each day exploring Honolulu's cuisine scene and enjoying heavenly Hawaiian music and hula with sunset cocktails by the ocean.

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But the endless meadows filled with a purple-blue ocean of lupine, or the sunset orange-red of the Indian paintbrush (Wyoming's state flower) will leave you speechless.

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In the west of the city, Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond have great access to Ocean Beach, a wide sandy expanse on the Pacific Ocean.

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Once more the rewards were as much visual as physical, with beachcombing camels greeting the team as they took their kayaks into the ocean froth for a wave-surfing session that lasted from sunrise to sunset.

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Get off the map and into the Sunset Water Villa which is stilted over a quiet lagoon inlet on the Indian Ocean.

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