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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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Apr 20, 2021 12:37 pm
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Rescuers were unsuccessful in initial efforts to cut entangling gear from a gray whale calf traveling with its mother along the Southern California coast.
The calf was spotted Monday morning by the crew of a Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari vessel near the San Clemente Pier, The Orange County Register reported.
The whale watching vessel contacted the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s whale entanglement response team and the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach.
The whale watching boat was joined by three private boaters in tracking the pair while waiting for rescuers to arrive.
Rescuers Search for Entangled Baby Whale
SAN CLEMENTE Whale watchers up and down the coast of Southern California April 20 were on the lookout for an entangled baby gray whale first spotted near the San Clemente Pier.
Efforts to disentangle what appeared to be fishing lines wrapped around the calf’s head were unsuccessful April 19 as rescuers on an inflatable and two support boats attempted to pull off the lines with a telemetry buoy, said Justin Viezbicke of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The lines entangled on the baby’s head “just kept breaking,” but “the main part of the entanglement is still there,” Viezbicke said. “So obviously, that’s a concern to us.”
Entangled gray whale calf spotted off San Clemente
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Posted at 12:41 PM, Apr 20, 2021
and last updated 2021-04-20 15:41:33-04
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) â Rescuers were unsuccessful in initial efforts to cut entangling gear from a gray whale calf traveling with its mother along the Southern California coast.
The calf was spotted Monday morning by the crew of a Captain Daveâs Dolphin and Whale Watching Safari vessel near the San Clemente Pier. The vessel contacted the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administrationâs whale entanglement response team and the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.
Giselle Anderson of Captain Daveâs tells The Orange County Register that the baby appeared to be tangled in a float and line that went around its face and was possibly wrapped around a pectoral flipper.