Blink and you might pass up the beautiful shores of Oak Street Beach. Among the 26 unique shorelines in Laguna Beach, Oak Street is home to not only a marine protected area but also a host of locals like the Booth family, who call many of these unique shorelines home. For Tess Booth, 20, growing up splashing in the shore break and conquering some of Laguna Beach’s premier surf spots ignites a forever passion for the ocean.
Late in the evening on Sunday, Jan. 21, Briggs Christian (Corky) Morris-Smith exhaled his last breath as his son Kurt read to him in bed from a collection of Native American “Great Spirit Prayers.”
After a snowboarding accident in 2018 led to a life-changing brain injury, Laguna Beach resident Brayden Belden thought he would never surf again. He was a finalist this week in the Brooks Street Surfing Classic.
The 57th Annual Brooks St. Surfing Classic went off without a hitch this past weekend with ideal wave conditions, stirred up by the passing Hurricane Jova, a storm creating high surf along Southern California beaches.