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Laguna Beach, California

Adventure

• Captain Dave's Dolphin Safari. "Captain Dave's Dolphin Safari offers you the opportunity to get close to and view the exquisite California dolphins and California whales, as well as other beautiful sea creatures. Southern California whale watching can be one of the most peaceful and exciting adventures of your lifetime. We leave from Dana Point Harbor and take you on a 2 1/2 hour ocean adventure. Dana Point is located near Sea World California (approximately 60 minutes away). Captain Dave Anderson is an experienced Marine naturalist who has been leading dolphin trips and whale watching from Dana Point since 1995. He has also created and produced the award winning documentary 'Wild Dolphins and the Whales of Southern California.'"
• Dana Wharf Sport Fishing Charter and Whale Watching. "We take pride in offering the best in Sport fishing and Whale Watching and invite you to discover all we have to offer. We are ideally located in the heart of Orange County minutes from the five freeway in Dana Point Harbor. Please enjoy our site and let us know how you like it. Also make sure you join our popular email and kids clubs to take advantage of all our special offers."
• La Vida Laguna. "La Vida Laguna is a spirit embodied by the people fortunate enough to call Laguna Beach home. You can't live or visit here without being affected by its profound natural beauty. This is a place where the coastal breeze, smell of the ocean, gorgeous vistas and sunsets put a spring in people's step, where they regularly remark to each other, "wasn't today amazing?"
  
  I launched La Vida Laguna in 2003 to share the outdoor, aquatic adventures that were previously inaccessible to all but a few. Whether it's paddling or wave running into hidden coves, fishing in secret reefs, surfing our consistently epic swells, or even drumming on the beach around a bonfire, you'll return renewed, transformed, and invigorated by all nature has to offer.
  
  Billy Fried : Chief Paddling Officer."
• North Laguna Float Company. "Tour activities may include perfecting basic paddling skills, sightseeing, photography, or a visit to nearby Seal Rock. A detailed orientation will be given to each group before launch, including equipment familiarization instruction on double-bladed paddling techniques, tour structure and procedures, and general safety and “surf zone” precautions. Allow 2 ½ hours for the entire tour (1-hour minimum paddling time).
  
  Tours operate year round (winter paddling conditions and weather are often more favorable than summer). The best time to schedule trips is mid-morning on weekdays. Trip operator reserves the right to cancel or reschedule tours due to unsafe ocean/surf/weather conditions."
• Soul Surfing School. "At Soul Surfing School our goal is to teach our students about the wonderful world of surfing. Since we have been blessed to do the majority of our teaching throughout Southern California our water and air temps stay relatively stable. We do offer all new state of the art wetsuits and soft-top surfboards year around for our guests comfort.
  
  Our teaching curriculum has been designed by Ocean safety experts to give our students a full understanding of the sport of surfing. The three major elements of our program include:
  • Safety and the ocean environment
  • Surfing skills, techniques
  • Surfing etiquette

  Our team of instructors who are CPR certified and are lifeguards, surf coaches, and ocean enthusiasts are focused on making your lesson a success. In fact, most students are up and riding within their first lesson!
  
  We believe that learning to surf is an adventure that rivals any other activity in the world. At Soul Surfing School we want to set a foundation for a long lasting and thrilling relationship for our guests so we spare no expense to ensure a fun safe experience that will last a lifetime.
  
  We invite adults, children and entire families to our schools. We provide all needed equipment, new soft top surfboards, wet suits, rash guards. We are available for private lessons, day camps, parties, company team building, etc."   

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Airports

• Directory of California Airports from TravelConsumer.com.   Includes LAX and other Los Angeles, CA airports

Attractions

• Art-A-Fair Festival. "The Art-A-Fair Festival is the ultimate destination for lovers of art to visit this summer! Nestled in a Colorful garden setting in romantic Laguna Canyon. the Festival is an enjoyable place to spend a summer day in the historic art community of Laguna Beach
  
  Open Seven days a week, visitors are offered the opportunity to view and acquire art directly from the artist exhibitors, finalists of a national juried competition An exciting variety of two and three dimensional art is represented including oils. watercolors, pastels, acrylics, drawings, mixed media, photography, Sculpture, jewelry glassworks, Pottery, and furniture.
  
  Special artist demonstrations and lectures are highlighted this year. See first hand how they create these artistic masterpieces from conception to completion. Free workshops and supervised children's art activities are also offered."
• Festival of the Arts Pageants of the Masters. "Pageants of the Masters:  Ninety minutes of "living pictures" - incredibly faithful art re-creations of classical and contemporary works with real people posing to look exactly like their counterparts in the original pieces. An outdoor amphitheater, professional orchestra, original score, live narration, intricate sets, sophisticated lighting, expert staff, and hundreds of dedicated volunteers have won recognition for the Pageant as the best presentation of its kind.
  
  Festival of the Arts:  California’s finest Summer art event is staged in a six-acre canyon park near the ocean in Laguna Beach. The stars of this summertime tradition, which began here in 1932, are over 140 of the Southland’s most accomplished artists. This is a rigorously juried show, requiring exhibitors to demonstrate and maintain high aesthetic standards. Their work is truly fine art! The artworks on display are for sale and represent a complete spectrum of art media: paintings, sculpture, pastels, drawings, serigraphs, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, etched and stained glass, fiber arts, handcrafted furniture and even scrimshaw. All of the works are original art - another element that distinguishes the Festival of Arts from other shows. The Festival is the perfect place to find affordable and unique works of art to decorate your home or business."
• Sawdust Art Festival. " Designed to both entertain and educate, the Sawdust Art Festival draws more than 200,000 visitors from across the country each year. Visitors are invited to shop along sawdust-covered paths through a hand-crafted village of fine arts and superb craftsmanship. The Festival also features demo booths such as glass blowing, complimentary hands-on art workshops, a children¹s art booth, refreshments from three restaurants and a saloon, live music and more.
  
  The Sawdust Art Festival sets itself apart from Laguna Beach¹s other summer art festivals in that it is nonjuried, so it plays a vital role in supporting the careers of many local artists. The Sawdust has expanded from its beginnings as a small show on a vacant lot to a 9-week festival situated on a three-acre eucalyptus grove, complete with waterfalls, in Laguna Canyon. Along the way, the Sawdust has become the city¹s most popular summer art festival, drawing higher paid attendance than any other
  summer festival.
  
  All forms of fine arts and crafts will be on display during this year¹s Festival, including ceramics, art glass, watercolor and oil painting, printmaking, jewelry, woodworking, leather, sculpture and clothing."

Biking

• Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) Bikeways Map. "With a favorable climate throughout the year and many recreational attractions, Orange County is an ideal area for bicycling. More than 800 miles of on-road and off-road bikeways offer a wide variety of scenery and terrain for leisurely rides or vigorous conditioning......While every effort was made to provide up-to-date information, please keep in mind that the bikeway routes on these maps are for information purposes only. The safety of any given bikeway at any given time cannot be guaranteed. As a bicyclist, you are expected to use good judgment and be responsible for your safety when using the bikeways." 

Chamber of Commerce

• Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce. "The Laguna Beach Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1923 with a simple objective: to support local businesses. Over eighty-nine years later, that simple mission still drives everything we do.
  
  The Chamber's purpose in this community is to serve as the leader in three key areas:
  • Advocating the interests of local business to government organizations such as the City Council and planning Commission.
  • Providing cooperative programs such as marketing and public relations to benefit local businesses, which they could not afford individually.
  • Creating a healthy business environment that contributes to the Laguna Beach quality of life.

Classified Advertising

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Education

• The Laguna Beach School District.
• Laguna Outreach Community Arts. "Laguna Outreach Community Arts believes that the arts are vital to the health and welfare of all human beings. The mission of LOCA is to provide educational opportunities for artistic enrichment through outreach to the community and schools while promoting local professional artists...LOCA is a coalition of arts educators, professional artists, and advocates interested and involved in arts education for people of all ages. LOCA's instructors are among the finest professional artists in Orange County. All are committed to enriching the lives of the communities of Southern California through experiences in the arts. Our artist's work is represented at the Sawdust Festival, the Festival of the Arts, and Art-A-Fair as well as individual private galleries and studios."

Employment

• Employment resources for Los Angeles and Southern California.

Encyclopedia

• Encyclopedic entry for Laguna Beach, CA from HighBeam Encyclopedia.
• Encyclopedic entry for Laguna Beach, California from Yahoo! Encyclopedia.

Golf

• Aliso Creek Inn and Golf Course. "The moment you turn off Coast Highway into Aliso Creek Inn, you are in for one delightful surprise after another. The tranquil, rustic resort tucked into the breathtakingly beautiful canyon. The flower-lined walkways, the 80 scenic acres encompassing Laguna's only golf course, all just 365 yards from the beach. Aliso Creek Inn is located in Laguna Beach, a quaint little seaside village with pristine white beaches and secluded coves.
  
  All accommodations are spacious one or two bedroom townhouses or studios, complete with a full kitchen including a full-size refrigerator and stove, living room, cable television and private landscaped patio.
  
  With over 80 acres of fun and activities, Aliso Creek Inn offers something for everyone. Visitors rave about our mature 9-hole, par 32 golf course that plays into the canyon. It is beautifully maintained and surprisingly challenging.
  
  Between rounds, you can visit our pro shop, hit a bucket of balls or improve your swing with a lesson from a local pro. Of course, Aliso Creek is also just a chip shot away from popular Aliso State Beach. Here you can enjoy fishing, surfing, scuba diving and sunbathing. Or you can just relax by our large pool or unwind in our spa. There's even a wading pool for the little ones.
  
  Aliso Creek Inn has been a favorite Laguna Beach destination since 1958. It is a place that prides itself on being unpretentious, yet offering impeccable service - you will want to visit it again and again!
  
  The Inn features Canyon Lodge American Grill where fine dining and weekend entertainment will highlight your experience. You will appreciate the comfortable ambiance accented by heavily beamed ceilings, massive fireplaces, warm wood walls and nature's boldest colors for vibrancy - truly a splendid mountain lodge!"

Government

• Official Web site for Laguna Beach, California. "The City of Laguna Beach is well known as a unique beach community and artist's colony with seven miles of City beaches running along its nine square miles. The resident population enjoys the ambiance provided by the sandy beaches, canyons and coastal hills. During the summer, several million visitors are drawn to the resort environment for its picturesque beaches, art festivals and the Pageant of the Masters. Laguna's village scale shopping district, blufftop walkways and tram system create a pedestrian environment and scale which is unique in Southern California.
  
  The City provides a broad array of services, including police, fire, paramedic, marine safety, recreation, parks, public works, community development, transit, information technology and animal control. The City employs more than two hundred full-time employees and an additional hundred part-time employees during the peak summer months."

Health

• County of Orange Health Department.
  • Restaurant & Food Facility Closures within the last 60 days. Comment: Planning on going out to eat tonight?  Read up on the health department reports about the restaurant you are considering patronizing first.   

History

• Laguna Beach Historical Society. "Preserving the History of Laguna Beach, California." 

Hotels and Motels

• TravelConsumer.com directory of travel reservation services.

Libraries

• Laguna Beach Library.

Maps

• Maps of Laguna Beach, CA from Google Maps.
• Maps of Laguna Beach, CA from MapQuest.
• Maps of Laguna Beach, CA from Yahoo! Maps.

Movie Theaters

• Google search for Laguna Beach, CA movie theaters that also provides movie show times.

Museums

• Laguna Beach Art Museum. "Laguna Art Museum represents the core California art scene. It places the aesthetics of the west coast within a national and international context and develops scholarship on the art history of California. Laguna Art Museum works from a tradition going back to the founding of the Laguna Beach Art Association nearly ninety years ago.
  
  The Museum's mix of historical and contemporary exhibitions are augmented by a smattering of "pop culture" shows dealing with areas such as surfing, car, and tattooing. The Museum is located right on one of the busiest streets of any coast town and is about 300 feet from the ocean making it one of the most spectacular and impressive locations of any museum in the world."
• Orange County Natural History Museum.

Nature

• InfoLACA Nature Resources in Los Angeles and Southern California.

News

• News headlines about Laguna Beach, CA from Google News.

Photographs

• Photographs of Laguna Beach, CA from Google Images.

Radio Stations

• InfoLACA.com directory of Los Angeles radio stations.

Reservations

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Television Stations

• InfoLACA.com directory of Los Angeles area television stations.

Theatre

• The Laguna Playhouse. "There’s nothing like it in the world.
  
  That feeling you experience — when you collapse into peals of laughter, when you can’t hold back tears, when you can’t stop talking about it with your friends, when you keep hearing the tunes in your head.
  
  And that’s why you keep coming back again and again.
  
  The magic of theatre offers the thrill of live performance, the discovery of a new story or an old one re-invented, the surprise of the unexpected or the ring of the familiar, the exploration of life’s mysteries or the celebration of our common humanity.
  
  How fortunate for you to have a place where you can retreat for such experiences. How lucky we all are to have The Laguna Playhouse.
  
  It’s your theatre."

Tourism

• Laguna Beach Visitors & Conference Center.

Transportation

• Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). "The Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) is a multi-modal transportation agency serving Orange County. We keep Orange County moving with countywide bus and paratransit service, Metrolink commuter rail service, the 91 Express Lanes toll facility, freeway, street and road improvement projects, motorist aid services and by regulating taxi operations.
  
  OCTA began in 1991 with the consolidation of seven separate transportation agencies. By increasing efficiency and eliminating duplicate functions, we save county taxpayers millions of dollars.
  
  An 18-member Board of Directors governs OCTA. The Board consists of 5 county supervisors, 10 city members, 2 public members and the Director of the Department of Transportation District 12 (Caltrans) as a non-voting member."

Video

• YouTube.com videos of Laguna Beach, CA. 

Volunteer

• VolunteerMatch.org. "Where volunteering begins...VolunteerMatch is a leader in the nonprofit world dedicated to helping everyone find a great place to volunteer. The organization offers a variety of online services to support a community of nonprofit, volunteer and business leaders committed to civic engagement. Our popular service welcomes millions of visitors a year and has become the preferred internet recruiting tool for more than 30,000 nonprofit organizations. Read more in our latest annual report."   Comment: If you want to volunteer, go to http://www.volunteermatch.org and click on Search, key in your ZIP Code, and you will instantly see the organizations in your area needing volunteers. This is a brilliant concept that makes great use of the Internet.  

Weather

Sailing Weather Information

• Coastal Data Information Program of  the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
  • Swell Height Predictions for Ventura County.   
• National Weather Service Coastal Waters Forecast Los Angeles/Oxnard.
• Santa Barbara Weather Buoy.
• Santa Monica Weather Buoy.

WiFi HotSpots

• WiFi HotSpots in Laguna Beach, CA from JIWIRE. An international directory of WiFi hotspots or access points.
• Other WiFi directories that cover Los Angeles. InfoLACA.com's directory of WiFi access resources for Los Angeles and Southern California.