Dave,
I agree with the others: your shots are great. I'm especially jealous because I was up in the hills of Soquel instead of down on the beach. Everything was too far away and we had too much haze to get any good shots. I was tempted to nuke the entire batch as well.
John,
It looks to me like you also had some wobblies going on. Did you use a tripod and remote?
Thanks,
PC