Shooting cold.....

Life is about compromise.....I wanted to play with a photo shoot at sunset.....youngest son wanted beach play! That meant the sunset would be in the opposite direction but we went out to a new location that we hadn't explored before. When we parked the car we were much further from the rocks than planned and had a 1.6 km trek at a fast clip along the beach to arrive at the rocky ledge as the sun set. Having never been here before I started scouting around for some interesting angles and foreground but had very little time as the light was fading fast. It felt very stressful, rather than relaxing......but in the end I was quite happy with this interesting 's' shaped rocky channel with the seaweed beads.
I packed up my camera gear and we headed back along the beach in the dark, trudging through the wet sand, with a very wet, very sandy dog in tow.......why does it always seem SOOO much further getting back to the car than heading out?