Memorable Sunsets of 2024

Donald Raab
4 min readJan 1, 2025

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A year of roadtrips, writing, biking, sunrises, and sunsets

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

I drove more in 2024 than I can recall driving in a very long time. I went on two roadtrips to the Florida Keys. The two roadtrips accumulated thirty one days of driving and sightseeing. I also drove up to Maine two or three times and down to Virginia for a vacation. There were many sunrises and sunsets in 2024. Good food, good drink, quality time spent with family, and memories I will cherish forever. The sun has set on the year Two Thousand Twenty Four on Planet Earth, but many memories remain in hearts, minds, and photos.

Going back through my photos looking through sunsets, which felt like hundreds of pictures, I remembered other trips I took this year to Maine, Crete, Denver, Williamsburg, Long Beach Island.

I also got a decent number of bike rides in this year. The bike rides are limited to a park near my house and Long Beach Island, New Jersey. I will try and branch out to other places to ride my bike in 2025. This is not a resolution, just a reminder of something I didn’t do in 2024.

Anyway, the title of this blog is memorable sunsets. There are quite a few, so sit back, enjoy your coffee, and see the end of many days through the lens of my iPhone. Enjoy!

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Key Largo, Florida
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Bike Ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Bike Ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Lake in Maine
Lake in Maine
Bike Ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Bike Ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Lake Pushaw in Maine
Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine
Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Maine
Bayside, Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Bike Ride to Barnegat Lighthouse, Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Bayside, Long Beach Island, New Jersey
Bayside, Long Beach Island, New Jersey
This is the moonrise in Crete. So bright it looked like a sunset.
Peanut Island as seen from Singer Island, Florida
Bike ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Yorktown Battlefield, Virginia
James River, Jamestown, Virginia
Bike ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Bike ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Bike ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Bike ride in Roosevelt Park, New Jersey
Key West, Florida
Key West, Florida
Key West, Florida
Brick, New Jersey

No sunset is ever the same. It’s a blessing to enjoy every beautiful day and sunset while we can. The sunsets in your backyard or local park can be just as beautiful as ones we see in far away places. The sun doesn’t care where you are. It will shine down on you as many days as you let it. Be good to yourself and each other in 2025. The sun is watching.

Happy New Year!

I am the creator of and committer for the Eclipse Collections OSS project, which is managed at the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse Collections is open for contributions.

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Donald Raab
Donald Raab

Written by Donald Raab

Java Champion. Creator of the Eclipse Collections OSS Java library (https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse-collections). Inspired by Smalltalk. Opinions are my own.

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