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We scoured the coast and came up with the top beaches in Orange County, no matter what you’re in the mood for.
Little Corona Beach; photo by Michelle Pagaran
CROWN OF THE SEA
➜ Corona del Mar State Beach draws swimmers, body surfers, and sunbathers. With top-notch eats (Page 75) and updated showers and restrooms, this long, crescent-shaped beach is comfortable and welcoming, so much so that summer parking is a challenge despite its large lot ($1.50 to $4 per hour or $15 to $20 per day depending on the time of year). Anyone who doesn’t mind the winding, steep path to the sand from Inspiration Point can park in the neighborhood above and admire the luxurious homes along Ocean Boulevard. Lookout Point overlooking
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Laguna Beach resident Brad Wood uses an electric drill to grind paint off a sea cave near Thousand Steps Beach on Feb. 23. Photo by Mitch Ridder, Contributing Photographer
A Laguna Beach man started removing graffiti Monday from a sea cave near Thousand Steps Beach after reading a thread of comments on a local Facebook group.
Brad Wood, 57, of Laguna Beach said heâs grown to love the South Laguna beach over the last 40 years. The vandalism first reported on Feb. 14 was intolerable, Wood said, adding âyou canât attack mother nature.â
âWhen I saw everyone complaining there was no real solution being offeredâjust a lot of hate and painâso I thought, âletâs take care of it,ââ he said.
Laguna Beach Local News
Lifeguards search the southern cave on Thousand Steps Beach for a missing man as waves intensified in February 2015. Photo by Andrea Adelson.
Laguna Beach officials said Wednesday that a graffitied Thousand Steps Beach sea cave is located on private property and are working with the property owners to remove the paint.
Photos of the usually whimsical beachscape were posted to social media platforms, earning outrage from many Laguna Beach residents exasperated by a segment of visitors who vandalize natural spaces.
“We are working with the property owners on cleaning up the graffiti and expect to have the situation resolved soon,” Laguna Beach Community Development Director Marc Wiener wrote in an email.
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The Search
It was the end of an unusually warm New Year’s Day in the early 1980s. A streak of orange light spanned the sky. Tina’s roommate answered a knock at the door and there stood three well-scrubbed, college-age kids. From across the living room, she saw two young women and a shy male. He spoke somewhat frantically. “We lost our keys to the car, do you have a flashlight we could borrow? We were at the beach straight down all those stairs.”