Click here to view the embedded video. Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara accepted the Biggest Wave Award last Friday at the Grove in Anaheim during the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards, and now Guinness World Records is putting his wave in the books as the largest wave ever ridden. The massive wave he took in Portugal [...]
The family-oriented Rossmoor Community Festival kicked off May 6 with a helicopter landing by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. An Orange County Harbor Patrol boat and a K-9 Team were also provided for attendees to view and photograph. The inaugural “We Care High Heel Dash” created a spectacle, with men and women running down [...]
The eighth annual Vans Pro-tec Pool Party is going down this Saturday, an event that will bring some of the world’s best skaters to the Block at Orange. The event draws pros such as Omar Hassan, Bucky Lasek and Rune Glifberg, as well as legends such as Steve Caballero, Chris Miller – who has won [...]
Because it’s never too early to start planning a Stanley Cup run, a group of Los Alamitos parents have successfully lobbied to get Los Alamitos High School an ice hockey team, starting next year. Leading the charge are the parents of a Lee Elementary fifth-grader whose love for hockey made them realize that they’d better [...]
Stand Up Paddlers by the hundreds launched out of the Newport Dunes on Saturday for a fun fundraiser to benefit the Susan B. Komen for the Cure.The event – dubbed the “2012 Standup for the Cure,” brought out a record 414 people wearing pink shirts for the largest stand-up paddleboard lesson in history, setting a [...]
The chants of the Brazilian national anthem, sung in Portuguese, echoed proudly along the cobblestoned beach, as supporters held their countryman high above the crowd.Wearing a yellow jersey, young Brazilian Gabriel Medina was lifted on the shoulders of supporters – surrounded by family who traveled from Bra zil to watch as he surfed his way [...]
The whales we reported seeing at the Wedge a while back seem to like this local spot, and were hanging out on the north side of the Newport Harbor entrance this morning about 9:30 a.m. Photographer Jordan Anast was out taking shots of the bodyboarders when he again spotted the whales. Bodyboarder and water photographer [...]
While signaling dissatisfaction with the project, the Seal Beach Planning Commission delayed a decision on controversial plans to build 48 homes on the city’s last remaining coastal open space. Bay City Partners, the group that owns the 10.7 acres at First Street and Marina Drive submitted last-minute changes to the project this week in [...]
Check out this event at Dukes on Wednesday night, and have a few drinks for a good cause.Big Wednesdays is in full gear, and this week Huntington Surf and Sport and Quiksilver are hosting the fundraiser for Huntington Beach lifeguards. There will be a raffle with some great prizes to win, entertainment, drink specials … [...]
It appears that more cow/calf pairs of gray whales are headed for Southern California waters on their northbound journey back to Alaska. In the longest mammalian migration known to man, 8,500- 12,500 miles, the leviathans are now departing the lagoons of Baja California and headed back to the nutrient rich Bering Sea. According [...]
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