Candy Baron at Laguna Beach

On Forest Avenue where individual shops lining-up at Laguna Beach, there is one store where reminds everyone of their childhood, "Candy Baron."

"Look at these all Taffies. This is exciting," said the lady in the sore. "It's really hard, but I'll definitely buy bunch of them."

While this lady weren't able to hide her excitement, there was a man who are smiling at the lady. He was the manager of Candy Baron Laguna beach Store, Izac who actually used to be a Saddleback student long time ago.

"This is a candy shop," Izac said. "We have a few thousands of candies.

The numbers and variety of candies they have has the magic to make everyone to child. He revealed the candy most loved from all of the customers.

"Our most popular candy is Taffy," he said. "We do have a lot of Taffies in this store."

This store's location, Laguna Beach, adds the unique characteristics to this store. According to him, the busiest month is during summer.

He said "The busiest season is summer which is June, July and August because this is the tourist place."

Through having a store at Laguna Beach, he found the difference of Laguna Beach comparing to other beaches in orange County.

"It's more unique," he said. "In the way, it is still considered as a village."

Also, he knows how to enjoy Laguna beach.

"There are lots of galleries," he said. "And there are also very unique shops too where you can find the products you cannot find anywhere else.

And also, he never forgets the most important thing to do at Laguna Beach.

He said "You'd better visit my store."

If you never have visited to Laguna Beach, this video can give you some ideas.

Orange County shores covered by tiny red crabs

The crazy amount of red tuna crabs are now covering the Orange Country coastline, from Huntington beach south to Laguna Beach.

This incidence happened several times before. The similar case occurred in the last year and got beaches in trouble.

According to Los Angeles Times,  in Laguna Beach, marine safety Lt. Kai Bond said he saw the salmon-colored critters, about 1 to 3 inches long, scattered across portions of the southern tip of Main Beach and along beaches in the Sleepy Hollow area. 

In Huntington Beach, "thousands of crabs settled on the sand north of Goldenwest Bolsa China State Beach earlier this week," said Lt. Claude Panis to Los Angeles Times.

People are wondering the cause of this increase of dead of red tuna crab appearing on the beach for the particular season.

"It happens every now and then," Panis also said to Los Angeles Times. "It seems to go hand-in-hand with El Nino. I think it could be related to the different currents we have going on right now. It was just a fun little event for us."

 

If you want to catch up with the current status of Laguna Beach, visit Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot in Los Angeles Times.

Newport Boat Show from sellers side

Under not the perfect condition of cloud this morning, people were preparing for this evening of the event. Duncan Mclntosh Co. Inc is still holding the annual event "43rd Annual Newport Boat Show" at Lido Marina Village at Newport Beach today, May 13.

This event is able to be carried out with yachting interests of attendance. So, the existence of both sellers and buyers at this event is important.

Sellers have the clear different perspective toward this event than the buyers. As buyers are looking forward to this event, sellers are too.

Showing how big this event is, sellers are not from only the U.S., but they come from outside of the U.S. as well.

"We're from Montreal, Quebec, Canada," said Daniel and Roger, the representatives from Canadian Electric Boat Co. "We are here to sell boats."

According to them, weekends are the better days to sell boat.

"Like every show, Thursday has not a lot of people because people work today," Daniel said. "But, it's good for us because we can get ready our boats and staff, so we are ready for tomorrow."

Even though they took such a long journey to California just to attend to this event, there is a good reason for them to do so.

"This is our second year for this event," Daniel said. "Because we are selling 100 % of electric boats, I think California, comparing to other states, is more open to electric products."

Another reason comes from their environmental concerns.

"We concern about the effect from the electric boat to the environment," Roger said. "Our boat has no emission and is very moral and friendly to the environment than all other boats. That's why we are representing our boat here in California."

Their likeness of boat is coming from their likeness of the environment.

"First of all, we like water and sea," Roger said. "It is pleasure to going around and the lifestyle of boating."

As they said, their company PR video tells message how much they concern the environment.

Newport Boat Show will be running through until Sunday night. It would be an interesting time to join into those boat and sea lovers.

Q&A for Boat Show staff

• What is your name and position?

I am Steven Bolduc and a Boat Show staff.

• What is the purpose of this event?

It's a sale's event where people market. There are 200 yachts here and various accessaries to the yachting community. They organize here, people come and hopefully they'll sell some boats. People come to look at the boats and pick what they like. Some people just like looking at the boats and people that already have boats, they can buy an equipment for them here, but there are 200 yachts in the harbor. The boat show runs from Thursday to Sunday night.

• How was the first day?

The first day was yesterday from 12 a.m.-7 p.m. It was better than last year. Good attendance so far. A lot of people are working during the week, so Saturday and Sunday are big days. Boat Show opens 10 a.m. today and runs till 7 p.m. tonight. So, maybe in the afternoon, more people will come by. It just opened at 10 a.m. this morning and it's been an hour so far.

• What do you like about boat?

I am a seller, so I like to sell boats.

• How many people came in yesterday?

It would be several thousands. I don't have an accurate count, but it would be several thousands.

• Why this event has been took its place at Newport?

Newport is one of the largest private yacht harbors in the country. So, these boat shows are held around the country, usually in the places where there are a lot of yachting interests. There is the one in San Diego, here, up in Los Angeles and Bay area somewhere. But Newport is one of the largest yachting communities in the U.S. I think there are more private yachts then most other places.

• How many times did you attend to this event?

This is my 5th year I've done it. They usually have the spring one and fall one. Normally, it's in late April, but this year, because of a lot of construction going on here, they moved it to May. Maybe, this year will have one in fall too, but this one is the biggest.

Beautiful Sunset at Huntington Beach

Ready for summer at Newport Beach

43rd Annual Newport Boat Show

Duncan Mclntosh Co. Inc is now holding the annual event "43rd Annual Newport Boat Show" at Lido Marina Village at Newport Beach. This event will take its place May 12-15.

This event is where you'll be able to tour some of the finest yachts on the coast. Lots of boat sellers and buyers are coming to its market internationally.

According to "the Log," this event is "the show presenting the largest collection of big yachts west of the Mississippi." Furthermore, they described "It will offer more than 400,000 square feet of floating dock exhibits and boardwalk display."

In this event, the buyers can find various kinds of boat with great deals to gather international boat lovers.

There are over 300 boats on display and each host of exhibitors is showcasing their innovative products and services.

"It was nice. This show gives you a lot of ideas about boat," said Silvester, one of the attendances from the first day of this event. "I have two boats and one of the boat I was going to buy was at this show, but it was not for sale."

According to him, there is the difference between this year and the last year. 

"I come here every year," he said. "The design of the boats is different than the last year. The new boats, like materials, are different, not just regular power boats or sale boats, with the new designs and technologies."

2016 California Footvolley Championship at Huntington Beach

California Footvolley hold 2016 California Footvolley Championship at Huntington Beach on May 1st. This was the 2nd day of this world championship.

The 2nd day of this event showed more heated excitement than the 1st day because more people showed up to see who would be the world champion. 

In this day, only teams which survived from the 1st day were on their court of sand to compete each other. While competitors and audiences were getting intense, higher-leveled techniques were performed.

The hottest team that burned out all other competitive teams was Eduardinho - Lucas.

This video is the scene form the final point from Eduardinho - Lucas and their winner interview.

Bye for California Footvolley for now, but 2016 California Footvolley World championship will be back August 26-28.

Huntington Beach is famous for holding big annual events. One of their biggest event is "Vans US Open of Surfing." This year, it will be held July 23-31.

The 2016 Huntington Beach Open at Huntington Beach

While the sun was burning out the sand at beach, four men in the court were also burning their bare feet. California Footvolley hosted The California Footvolley World Championships at Huntington Beach on April 30-May 1.

This sports which seems like a beach volleyball at a glance is footvolley. It is beach soccer jam. The biggest difference between beach volleyball and footvolley is footvolley never allows to use hands or arms.

According to Footvolley.com, “The ball is put into play by serving the ball with one’s foot over the net to the opponent’s court. A team is allowed to hit the ball three times to return it to the opponent’s court.”

This video can give you more clear image about what footvolley is.

Footvolley has launched on sport field for more than 50 years, and along with its history, it was added to the categories of 2016 Olympic Games hosted by Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - The birthplace of footvolley.

Huntington Beach was picked as a perfect ground for this sport. So, With this huge visible banner above the Main Street “The 2016 Huntington Beach Open,” this two days championship opened on April 30.

“What a game going on today,” Mark Millan, the MC of this event said during games.

None of the audience at the beach knows how many times Mark said the word over the entire 1st day of this tournament.

Here is the incredible shot from scenes of "The Huntington Beach Open 2016."

This can prove their sophisticated techniques on this sport.

“It is unbelievable what you are seeing in your eyes are actually happening in front of you here at Huntington beach,” Mark said.

Every time Mark screamed, the audience excitement got hotter than the heat of the sun.

"I am a fan of this sport, and this is my first time to watch in an actual event," said Ngoc-Han, one of the audiences on that day. "I like soccer and volleyball, so this is a perfect mixed sport."

This is the shot from the final rally of that day.

"What a rally, What a rally," Mark said. The opening day ended showing the excitement for the west coast vs. east coast rally.

OC beaches

This blog will introduce various events at Orange County beaches like Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, or Laguna Beach to suggest plans for your weekends.

However, before you start exploring things to do on weekends at OC beaches, it is a great idea to know what beaches are here in OC.

Even though locals in California loves beaches, there is only few people who can list all of the OC beaches. Actually, beaches are divided into very small locations and each location has its own name.

For example, surprisingly, Laguna Beach is the general term and divided into 12 small locations.

So, here is the list of 10 main beaches at OC including the name of small beaches:

• Balboa Island (West Jetty View Park/Balboa Beach)
• Corona Del Mar (Bayside Drive County Beach/Little Corona Beach/China Beach/Rocky Beach/State Beach)
• Dana Point (Salt Creek State Beach/Capistrano Beach/Doheny State Beach/Poche Beach)
• Laguna Beach (Aliso Creek Beach/Divers Cove/Shaws Cove/Brooks Beach/Main Beach/Victoria Beach/Crescent Bay/Picnic Beach/West Street/Crystal Cove/Rockpile Beach/1000 Steps)
• Huntington Beach (State Beach/City Beach/Bolsa Chica)
• Newport Beach (Municipal Beach/Santa Ana River County Beach)
• San Clemente (San Clemente State Beach and Peir/Califia Beach)
• Seal Beach
• Sunset Beach
• Surfside

If you could list all of these OC beaches, you are the true OC beach lover.

This is the link to the website introducing names and locations of OC beaches with short descriptions.

http://www.orangecounty.net/html/beaches.html#sunset

Also, in this video, the top 10 best beaches of OC are introduced.

Cameron Diaz at B&N Huntington Beach and coming up events

Cameron Diaz Book Singing Event at Barnes & Noble ended up with great success.

Here is the tweet from Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach.

Thanks to @CameronDiaz and all of the fans for a fun event tonight! We have signed copies of #longevitybook. Call to hold/ship.

— B&N Huntington Beach (@BNEvents_HB) April 15, 2016

Through the link below, you can see the short report from the event.
http://www.justjared.com/2016/04/17/cameron-diazs-longevity-book-debuts-at-number-two/

Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach often holds other interesting events as well.

One of events they hold weekly is "storytime."

This Saturday May 14, at 11:00 a.m., they will read "If You Ever Want to Bring a Piano to the Beach, Don't!" by Elise Parsley.

This event is Special Children's Event including after activities, so it would be good time, especially for families.

If any family doesn't have any plan on this Saturday, it might be a great idea to join this event and chill out at Huntington Beach after.

If you want to follow up more coming up events at Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach, here is the link to the line-up of all the coming up events.
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/store/2743